Flipboard Picks in Art & Photo on Nostr: What did people in the Italian Renaissance era think about nudity, modesty and shame? ...

What did people in the Italian Renaissance era think about nudity, modesty and shame? Art — or the lack of it — can reveal a lot. There are far more naked men than women, for starters. "The male body is this absolute focus of creativity," historian Maya Corry told nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqcsxa4pjh2vn727xh69aqmhf8em765wh6luc8vxsf3kuv660u6zmsk7ap4v (nprofile…ap4v). "This is a Christian society and it's the male body, not the female body, that's made in God's image." Ahead of a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, Deborah Nicholls writes about the hidden meanings in a 16th-century female nude.

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