Flipboard Art & Photo Desk<p>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 <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@BBCNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBCNews</span></a></span>. "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.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/9oORmV" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/9oORmV</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ItalianRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ItalianRenaissance</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/RenaissanceArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenaissanceArt</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Raphael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Raphael</span></a></p>