Hope Carrasquilla, the former principal of a Florida school embroiled in controversy over a sixth-grade lesson on Michelangelo’s “David,” was forced out of her job last week.

In response, Dario Nardella — the mayor of Florence, Italy (where the sculpture is located) — took to Twitter on Sunday to personally invite Carrasquilla to the “City of Lilies.”

Mayor Nardella, via the social media platform, said he wanted to give the ousted educator “recognition on behalf of the city,” adding that “art is civilization and whoever teaches it deserves respect.”

The move comes after Carrasquilla resigned from her position at Tallahassee Classical School following complaints over a lesson that featured Michelangelo’s famous nude sculpture of the biblical figure David.

Although the former principal told a local media outlet that one parent had complained the lesson was “pornographic,” the school insists she was reprimanded for failing to follow procedure — alongside other unspecified disagreements — and not because the 500-year-old statue itself was considered indecent, CNN reports.