Botticelli - between Pornhub and Italian Ministry of Toursim

So was that a misfire? Seems so. Italian Ministry of Tourism has just put Botticelli's birth of Venus painting as some sort of mascot in its ads - from eating pizza in Lake Como to riding a bike in front of the coliseum etc. It is to note that the Uffizi gallery which owns the picture just sued Pornhub (yes, that adult website Pornhub) for using a Botticelli "Venus" lookalike in their own "art history channel" (where we learn that Caravagio actually was a bar hopper who hung out with sex workers and killed a man after a tennis match).

But so here we are. Is this the best of what Ministry of Tourism can do? To be honest I am on the Pornhub camp here which seemed much more creative. The tourism campaign is, bland - almost generated by an AI if you ask me. The kind of things Dell-E can do to a Vermeer painting (here)

Pornhub has the funniest answer to the Coronavirus

Even the worst situations need lightening up. Here is the case of Pornhub and the Coronavirus. Yes, you can touch yourself. In these bleak times, a little cheering up goes a long way. Yes, I know, the atmosphere is suffocating - Lebanon is in the middle of a financial default, a capital controls situation, a storm and Coronavirus on top.