Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in the circumcision, both required acknowledgment of the genital organ. More than exercises in realism, these unabashed images underscore the crucial theological import of the Incarnation.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Leo Steinberg
EAN: 9780226771878
COUNTRY: United States
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PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 1997-01-01
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GENRE: ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Renaissance, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious
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Religious and ceremonial art, Christianity
Leo Steinberg (1920-2011) was born in Moscow and raised in Berlin and London, emigrating with his family to New York in 1945. He was a professor of art history at Hunter College, City University of New York, and then Benjamin Franklin Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he remained until his retirement in 1990.
