CNN —A new version of Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “Venus of the Rags” has been unveiled in Naples after the original was destroyed in a suspected arson attack. The artwork—a statue of Venus, the Roman goddess of love, sex, beauty and fertility, and a heap of rags—stands in the Italian city’s Piazza Municipio once again following a ceremony Wednesday. The new version is “apparently identical” to the one that was burned, councillor Vincenzo Trione said in the statement. The work will be displayed in Piazza Municipio for three months before being moved to a permanent spot. Pistoletto first made the “Venus of the Rags” in 1967.

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Persons: Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “, ”, Venus, Gaetano Manfredi, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Naples Gaetano Manfredi, Marco Cantile, Pistoletto, ’, Vincenzo Trione Organizations: CNN, Piazza, Pistoletto Locations: Naples, Italian, Piazza Municipio