THE MEANINGS OF NUDITY IN MEDIEVAL ART

It is still routinely repeated that representations of the unclothed body in the Middle Ages connoted a site of corruption and sin, in contrast to a new, distinctive, humanistic and even secularizing Renaissance appreciation. But as the contributors to this collec tion remind us, medieval imagery that incorporated nudity was varied, complex and nuanced. It was a time-honored category of represe ntation that viewers had been accustomed to seeing in the most sacred contexts, but also an opportunity for dissent and transgressio n, and th...[Read more]