Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these treatments of the naked body in chronological order.
- The body as a sign of shame in medieval Christian imagery
- Post-Tridentine restriction of the nude in devotional images
- The recovery of the classical ideal in the Renaissance
- Clark formalises the distinction between naked and nude
- The heroic civic nude of Greek practice
Hints
- The valuation reverses between the first two.
- Clark writes in the twentieth century.
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- The heroic civic nude of Greek practice
- The body as a sign of shame in medieval Christian imagery
- The recovery of the classical ideal in the Renaissance
- Post-Tridentine restriction of the nude in devotional images
- Clark formalises the distinction between naked and nude
Why
The sequence is a single form passing through four valuations and then being theorised. Clark's account arrives at the end and describes the tradition from inside it, which is precisely the position Berger later attacked.
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