Italy's top football league, Serie A, has received widespread criticism after selecting paintings of three monkeys to adorn the walls of its Milan headquarters as it launched an anti-racism campaign on Monday.
The artwork was commissioned following ongoing accusations of racism within Italian football.
Sports website Football Italia tweeted an image of the video, commenting: "Yes, it's really real."
"With this trio of paintings, I would like to show that we are all the same race," artist Simone Fugazzotto said.
"In fact, when the Lega commissioned a work against racism last May, I immediately thought to paint a western monkey, an Asian monkey and a black monkey, because I would like to change people's perceptions by my work," he added.
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