Apr 9, 2008 / 20:09 pm
After a controversial piece of artwork depicting the apostles engaged in sexual acts was removed from an exhibit at the Vienna cathedral’s museum, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has expressed his “explicit regret” that the work was exhibited, Kath.net reports.
The Cathedral Museum of Vienna had put on a retrospective exhibition honoring the 80-year-old artist Alfred Hrdlicka. One of the pictures depicted what Hrdlicka described as a “homosexual orgy” involving the apostles at the Last Supper.
Another sketch depicting the Crucifixion showed a soldier simultaneously beating Christ and holding his genitals.
The obscene depiction of the Last Supper was removed from the exhibit within a week.