За голотата в християнското изкуство
About the nudity in the Christian art

Summary/Abstract: The nude human figure presences invariably in the Christian church art: in frescoes, in icons or in sculpture. Its paint develops through the ages both in the Catholic art and in the Orthodox iconography – form the flat and ascetic figures of the Middle Ages till the naturalism of the Renaissance. The nude body, most frequently found in compositions connected with the Creation and the sinners form the Day of Judgment, is far from any erotic associations. It is represented not so the nudity itself as the very idea of the nudity.

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