Jesus Christ, the son of God and redeemer of humankind according to Christian belief, resides at the heart of its imagery; his body was shown as mostly unclothed, revealing the signs of his physical persecution and crucifixion.
Photo: Gérard Blot Just as it had in the Middle Ages, the Christian faith dominated art throughout the Renaissance.
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After 1400, with the waning of the Middle Ages, artists depicted nudes as increasingly three-dimensional, vibrant, and lifelike— in short, more immediate and real.
Their conflicted responses are mirrored in our own body-obsessed era, filled with imagery of nudity.
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