Monday, May 01, 2023

Republicans: Bring back the fig leaf?

From Artnet:
The former Tallahassee principal who was forced to resign following parental outrage over sixth-grade students being shown images of Michelangelo’s David in art class has visited the Renaissance masterpiece herself. 
Her verdict? She’s impressed.

Hope Carrasquilla travelled to Florence’s Accademia Gallery on April 28, along with her husband and two children, at the invitation of director Cecilie Hollberg and was struck by the work’s purity and its grand setting.

“The thing that impresses me the most is that this whole gallery was built for him. I think it’s beautiful, it looks like a church,” Carrasquilla said in a statement. “Michelangelo would have done him wrong to sculpt him in any other way. I think it’s wonderful.”

In March 2023, Carrasquilla, who had only held the principal’s post since the beginning of the academic calendar, was given an ultimatum by the Tallahassee Classical School’s board after parents lodged a range of complaints around the inclusion of the iconic nude in the school’s curriculum....

See also Medieval Censorship, Nudity And The Revealing History Of The Fig Leaf and Art or pornography?

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1 Comments:

At 7:47 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

America has turned into a Simpsons cartoon (unless America has always been a Simpsons cartoon!):
Michelangelo's David

 

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