Ostentatio Genitalium
Charles Hope, 15 November 1984
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
by Leo Steinberg.
Faber, 222 pp., £25, September 1984,0 571 13392 4 Show More
by Leo Steinberg.
Faber, 222 pp., £25, September 1984,
“... The startling claim of Leo Steinberg’s new book is that over the past four centuries the real meaning of much of the religious art of the Renaissance has been lost. He argues that in representations of Christ, both as an infant and as an adult, the genitals had a particular theological significance to which we are now oblivious because of the modern world’s ‘massive historic retreat from the mythical grounds of Christianity ... ”