The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

Steinberg, Leo

Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in the circumcision, both required acknowledgment of the genital organ. More than exercises in realism, these unabashed images underscore the crucial theological import of the Incarnation.

EAN

9780226771878

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1 January 1997

Pages

426