Pornographic David

[viole]

Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue

One Florida parent complained Michelangelo's iconic statue amounted to pornography.

www.bbc.com

I think this is quintessential Christian. Anglican Christian too, if you notice the tactical picture on the BBC.

What do you think?

Ciao

- viole

 

[rocala]

If I was a Christian it is people like that who would cause me great embarrassment not a small marble willy.

 

[Estro Felino]

In Florence this high statue is located in the most important square where anyone, even children go for a walk.

Piazza della Signoria - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

My country is filled with statues portraying nude characters from mythology.
Does it mean we are a porn country?
...lol

 

[viole]

If I was a Christian it is people like that who would cause me great embarrassment not a small marble willy.

Actually, they should only complain about cultural accuracy. It is indeed difficult to imagine a non-circumsided king of the Jews.

Ciao

- viole

 

[Twilight Hue]

Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue

One Florida parent complained Michelangelo's iconic statue amounted to pornography.

www.bbc.com

I think this is quintessential Christian. Anglican Christian too, if you notice the tactical picture on the BBC.

What do you think?

Ciao

- viole

They should do what someone did to the statue of David in the municipal park near me.


Put a diaper on him.

Now that's classy 'vandalism'.

 

[viole]

In Florence it is in the most important square where children go for a walk.

My country is filled with statues portraying nude characters from mythology.

Does it mean we are a porn country?

(yes we are)...lol

I would suggest a parental guide notice, on any visit to Florence. Or all of Italy, to be safe. LOL.

Ciao

- viole

 

[Estro Felino]

Whenever I see such statues, I am shocked by how divinely great these artists were.

Once I learnt to sculpt marble and limestone. It is the most complex thing I can think of.

And by the way, art portrays beauty. As John Keats used to say, Truth is Beauty and Beauty is Truth.

 

[Twilight Hue]

If I was a Christian it is people like that who would cause me great embarrassment not a small marble willy.

God forbid if they ever visit the Sistine Chapel!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It's embarassing and shameful people get so embarrassed amd shamed over a naked body, ESPECIALLY when it's not even real.

 

[Estro Felino]

Actually, they should only complain about cultural accuracy. It is indeed difficult to imagine a non-circumsided king of the Jews.

Ciao

- viole

Back then (XVI century), in Italy, people had no idea what circumcision was. (Even today....so many people have no idea what it is, it's a very rare practice).
A country with 99% Catholics....

 

[rocala]

Actually, they should only complain about cultural accuracy. It is indeed difficult to imagine a non-circumsided king of the Jews.

Blush - All the years that I have known about this statue and I never thought of that.

 

[Estro Felino]

It's embarassing and shameful people get so embarrassed amd shamed over a naked body, ESPECIALLY when it's not even real.

Art represents beauty.
That cannot dispense with the truth.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Whenever I see such statues, I am shocked by how divinely great these artists were.

Once I learnt to sculpt marble and limestone. It is the most complex thing I can think of.

And by the way, art portrays beauty. As John Keats used to say, Truth is Beauty and Beauty is Truth.

You don't find artists like that anymore.

 

[Estro Felino]

You don't find artists like that anymore.

Fortunately we have Jago, nowadays. Jago (scultore) - Wikipedia

 

[metis]

In Florence this high statue is located in the most important square where anyone, even children go for a walk.

Piazza della Signoria - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

My country is filled with statues portraying nude characters from mythology.
Does it mean we are a porn country?

(yes we are)...lol

My wife grew if in a small one-room house in Sicily, thus it was all out in plain view and sound.

 

[ChristineM]

In Florence this high statue is located in the most important square where children go for a walk.

My country is filled with statues portraying nude characters from mythology.

Does it mean we are a porn country?

(yes we are)...lol

Actually the statue is in the accademia gallery. The one in Piazza della Signoria is a copy. Just in case you want the original and not the fake.

That is one if the things i love about italy
Everywhere you go, turn a corner walk into a square there is art.

 

[rocala]

My wife grew if in a small one-room house in Sicily, thus it was all out in plain view and sound.

Yes, similar for me, three generations in a small two bedroomed house. That was quite normal. That was city life. We all saw our younger male relatives running around naked. It was common to see dogs mating in the street too.
I don't think the OP's case is just down to Christianity. It seems to be a merger with modern sanitized society.

 

[ChristineM]

Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue

One Florida parent complained Michelangelo's iconic statue amounted to pornography.

www.bbc.com

I think this is quintessential Christian. Anglican Christian too, if you notice the tactical picture on the BBC.

What do you think?

Ciao

- viole

I remember not to long ago a copy of David was shown in Dubai... Just the chest up, the lower regions were covered from sight. So not only Christian, it seems Muslim's too need to be protected from art.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Art represents beauty.
That cannot dispense with the truth.

It's also ugly and apathetic. Cruel and thought provoking. Art is many things and nothing.

 

[John D. Brey]

Actually, they should only complain about cultural accuracy. It is indeed difficult to imagine a non-circumsided king of the Jews.

Ciao

- viole

. . . But it's unsettling that you were so fixated on it that you noticed a nuance that suggests of quasi-pornographic interest, focus, and examination.

Btw, Moses had to be threatened before he was circumcised. And in some senses David is more Trumpian than Moses. I can imagine David keeping every little bit of an organ he never took for granted. Just ask Bathsheba. She would know.



John