Statues covered up: In my mind it depends where it comes from. - If the visiting Iranian delegation requests it I would say it's a little ignorant and petty for

Statues covered up: In my mind it depends where it comes from. - If the visiting Iranian delegation requests it I would say it's a little ignorant and petty for a visiting foreign representative to request something like that. You have to know Italy has naked statues in it. There's no way you can't know that. Asking your host entity to cover them up because you don't like them (or like them too much?) strikes me as extremely arrogant and haughty. - If it comes from the Italian Government, I'd say it's somewhat disingenuous. If they're so much a problem, they shouldn't be there in the first place, and if they aren't, it's just showing the Government is ashamed of it's own culture which is kind of weird. - If it's just the museum going "Hey this guy is visiting, his culture doesn't really dig this kind of thing, why don't we be polite and cover it up" I think that's perfectly acceptable and frankly very polite of them to do. As to his aides asking him not to be photographed next to the statue: Who cares? It's his image, let him maintain it how he sees fit.