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Fighter pilots have always decorated their aircraft - though you're more likely to see a buxom blonde painted on the fuselage for luck than a fresco by Tiepolo.
Not with 47-year-old Italian artist Antonio Riello in the cockpit. Vatican Air Force and Navy, his new show at London's Spectrum Fine Art gallery, presents a squadron of model submarines, fighter jets and bombers, as well as an arsenal of ceramic AK-47s, Luger pistols, real (but empty) hand grenades and a Molotov cocktail - all decorated with frescoes by...