Renaissance art easily conjures mental imagery of both religious and erotic figures. Either heavily robed and demure, or athletic and provocatively nude. However, deeper symbolism can be missed by the most avid museum goer or gallery fiend.
As viewers, we are being primed in believing we can be divine while living vicariously through the divine beings. Identifying the Renaissance as a time of the greatest art acknowledges biblical art as the most influential. Whether blasphemous or erotic doesn’t diminish the fact that it is eternally provocative.
British Fine Artist
Posie Lombardi Rodriguez 