• fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There were rumours about his sexuality, I have no idea if that is true. But the whole Catholic purity thing about viewing bodies of the other sex, combined with the exclusion of women as paid artists, led to some really terrible breasts on otherwise realistic figures for a long time in Western European art.

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      1 year ago

      So this is actually not that weird? Like, everyone that saw this thing must have thought “WTF they don’t come out of the armpit (of an otherwise male-ish torso)”.