How naked bodies became a major artistic subject is explored in “The Renaissance Nude” at the Getty Museum. Six centuries ago, in a side chapel of an important church in Florence, Italy, a wealthy local silk merchant commissioned the artist Masaccio (1401-1427) to paint a fresco of Adam and Eve being expelled from Paradise by God. The painting rocked the […]
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