Contemporary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Venere degli Stracci (“Venus of the Rags”) will be re-installed in Piazza Municipio in Naples early next year, in what local leaders are calling a “symbol of rebirth” for the city after the monument’s destruction by arson this past summer.

One of Pistoletto’s most noted artworks, the original Venere degli Stracci dates to 1967 and features a cement sculpture of the goddess of beauty, love and fertility leaning against a mountain of discarded rags, in an interrogation of the relationship between the classical world and contemporary consumerism.