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Another work that overflows of moralism. It's part of an exhibition right now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna in Vienna, which is all about how renaissance and baroque were a great excuse to re introduce nudity and eroticism intto the very pious mediaval world. Nothing but producing a multitude of offpring was allowed in real life by the church then (and now), So if there were themes to be found in antiquity or the bible as an excuse to bend the rules everyboddy jumped on it. Even the Spanish king Phiplip II who went into history as the most awful religious fanatic is quoted at the exhib as saying at a commission for Velasquez: "I don't care what it symbolises and who you portray as long as there are lots of nudes in it" The best subject matter of course was portraying eternal damnation for perverse and blasphemous acts like the above. interested in the last page of last year ?
I'm not trying to be balanced
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