The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1484–1486 During the Renaissance, fascination within the nude body in artwork was being rekindled after a thousand years. Toward the top of Greco-Roman antiquity, Christian doctrines of celibacy, chastity, along with the devaluation of the flesh led to the declining fascination of nudes for patrons, and

The impact is that of a contemporary-working day Bosch painting — a hellish eyesight of a city collapsing in on itself. “Jungle Fever” is its personal concussive power, bursting with so many ideas and themes about race, politics, and love that they almost threaten to cannibalize each other.A miracle excavated from the sunken ruins of a traged