Earlier this year, the National Gallery became embroiled in another row after depicting a Christian saint as a transgender Asian man.
To retell the story of St Sebastian, who was believed to have been killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians, transgender models have been used by Ming Wong, a Singaporean artist.
The installation involved different videos depicting the trans models playing the Christian saint, where they can be seen to be listening to a seashell, dancing and doing martial arts movements.
At the time, Lucy Marsh, from the Family Education Trust, accused the museum of “rewriting history”.
She told the Daily Mail: “Portraying St Sebastian, who is venerated in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian traditions, as a ‘transgender’ man is not only historically inaccurate but incredibly offensive to Chistians.
“Pretending that an important male saint was secretly trans is ridiculous, because a Roman soldier could not have been female,” Ms Marsh added.