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Several public artworks by Romanian sculptor Ioan Bolborea are under scrutiny after a widely mocked Bucharest statue is alleged to have been cast with "inferior-quality materials." The artist says the case is revenge for a legal dispute.
This Bucharest statue, depicting Roman Emperor Trajan holding a stiff-legged she-wolf, has
been controversial since it was first unveiled in 2012. The monument, which is based on a model by the late sculptor Vasile Gorduz, was widely panned as "grotesque," though
one journalist suggested the criticism stemmed from "stubborn conservatism" in Romania.
In 2017 the tail of the monument's wolf was broken off. It is unknown whether the tail break was deliberate.