From: Arts and Morality in Ancient and Renaissance Italy
Two hundred years after Michelangelo painted his masterpieces in the Sistine chapel, some people within the Vatican, with papal permisssion, commissioned "breeches-painters" to cover what they called "the disgusting and ungodly site of the human body."
Clearly that later episode followed artistic traditions established in Pompeii
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From: Arts and Morality in Ancient and Renaissance Italy
Two hundred years after Michelangelo painted his masterpieces in the Sistine chapel, some people within the Vatican, with papal permisssion, commissioned "breeches-painters" to cover what they called "the disgusting and ungodly site of the human body."
Clearly that later episode followed artistic traditions established in Pompeii
Posted by: F. Lief Newton | June 12, 2007 8:57 AM
are you kidding lief?? if the "ungodly" parts of the body were covered up, would we still be able to see one man-nipple?
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