Bucharest,Romania — A Romanian sculptor has been charged with fraud after a much-mocked sculpture of Emperor Trajan — and 10 others — turned out to be made of brass and not bronze as claimed, police said Monday.
Ioan Bolborea, 65, is accused of selling the statues to the Bucharest municipality and thereby defrauding it of 3.7 million euros ($4.5 million), a police spokesman told AFP.
One of the statues, a depiction of a nude Roman emperor Trajan holding a she-wolf in his arms, was widely mocked after its installation in front of Bucharest’s National History Museum in 2012.
The artwork, based on a model by the sculptor Vasile Gorduz (1931-2008), portrays the genesis of th…
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