Tag: nudity
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Religious art: fig leaf or full frontal?
Pope Benedict XVI recently praised the use of nudity in the 16th-century masterpiece, “The Last Judgment,” which dominates an entire wall behind the altar in the famed Sistine Chapel. “The bodies painted by Michelangelo are filled with light, life and splendor.“He wanted to show that our bodies contain a mystery: within them the spirit is…