Why all the fuss about homoerotic Jesus? Artists have always made him sexy
This week, the more conservative echelons of Spanish society have been restive. For Easter Week in Seville, artist Salustiano García has produced a portrait of Jesus Christ that critics have described as “effeminate” – a word I hadn’t heard for about 25 years. García’s portrait is fairly horrid: a Calvin Klein model of a Messiah pouting against a crimson background, with a ruched cloth covering his modesty. Yet the outcry is – well, you might say “anachronistic”, were it not for the fact that th
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