CORINNE Diserens, the head of an Italian museum who refused to buckle under Catholic pressure to remove Martin Kippenberg’s crucified frog sculpture,  “Zuerst die Fuesse” (”Feet First”) has been sacked.

The four-foot-high piece first leaped to prominence earlier this year when Franz Pahl, president of the regional government in the mountainous north-east of Italy, went on [...]