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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.

The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/01/1997
    ISBN13: 9780226771878, 978-0226771878
    ISBN10: 0226771873

    Number of Pages: 426

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    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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