Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each context by whether the nude was PERMITTED or RESTRICTED in Renaissance and Baroque practice.
Groups: Permitted · Restricted
- A Last Judgement, by the demands of the subject
- A devotional image for a parish church
- An allegorical figure of Truth
- A saint in an altarpiece after Trent
- A mythological subject for a private room
- Adam and Eve, where the narrative requires it
Hints
- Ask whether the subject itself supplies a reason for the nudity.
- Devotional images for public worship are where restriction bites.
Show the answer
Permitted: A mythological subject for a private room, Adam and Eve, where the narrative requires it, A Last Judgement, by the demands of the subject, An allegorical figure of Truth
Restricted: A devotional image for a parish church, A saint in an altarpiece after Trent
Why
The pattern is that the subject had to license it. Mythology, the fall, the Last Judgement and allegory all supply a reason; a devotional image for public worship does not, and that is where post-Tridentine policing concentrated.
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