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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>
Ashley Gardini<p>One of the art history facts that surprised my students this week is that the "Mona Lisa" is famous because she was stolen in 1911 from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia so he could return her to Italy. The search for the "Mona Lisa," lasting until she was recovered in 1913, made her an internationally recognized painting that everyone had to see. There were genuinely shocked faces around the classroom - I think everyone was expecting me to explain something like why she's the greatest painting ever - so it was a really fun class!</p><p>And sure, before the theft art historians knew she was significant because she was a da Vinci, but she didn't have wider popular fame like she does today.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtHistory</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DaVinci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DaVinci</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MonaLisa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonaLisa</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ItalianRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ItalianRenaissance</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Renaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Renaissance</span></a></p>
Art History Animalia<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/Raphael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Raphael</span></a> Sanzio da Urbino was born &amp; died <a href="https://historians.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> (6 Apr 1483 – 6 Apr 1520). His depiction of Justice in the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Vatican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vatican</span></a>&#39;s Sala di Costantino <a href="https://historians.social/tags/fresco" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fresco</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/mural" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mural</span></a> (c.1519-20) replaces her traditional sword with...an <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ostrich" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ostrich</span></a>. Anybody know why? 🤔(Hint: think possible <a href="https://historians.social/tags/AncientEgypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AncientEgypt</span></a> influences...)<br /><a href="https://historians.social/tags/RenaissanceArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RenaissanceArt</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ItalianRenaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ItalianRenaissance</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/iconography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iconography</span></a><br /><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sala_di_costantino,_giustizia.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil</span><span class="invisible">e:Sala_di_costantino,_giustizia.jpg</span></a></p>