Removing the fig leaves from art history.
A woman rushes forward, her arms thrown wide as if the embrace the man in front of her. He pulls back, twisting dramatically to escape her grasp and holds up a cautionary hand to two women in the middle ground. In the time of Covid-19 such images resonate strongly. While we may not have pulled …
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Renaissance Nuns and Their Bodies. Sexuality isn’t normally something we attribute to nuns. But, of course, the sexuality of Renaissance nuns was vitally important. Their lack of sex is precisely what made them effective mediators between the Renaissance faithful and Christ, who was, himself, celibate. While we tend to think of nuns as shrouded in …
The Renaissance Uncensored