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The depiction of the crucifixion – his semi-nude, broken body on a cross – adorns churches and jewelry worldwide

Those in Spain who have objected to Jesus being portrayed as ‘effeminate’, ‘camp’ or ‘sexualised’ seem to imply that there is something wrong or deviant about such portrayals.

From the blog of Ray Johnstone at The Times of Israel

Delights from Baroque Carpathia Johannes Caioni The young Hungarian ensemble The Bacchus Consort is streaming baroque music from the Carpathian Basin on New York-based Salon Sanctuary Concerts’ experimental series B Live. Seeries Artistic Director Jessica Gould, fresh off the success of her first film Babylon: Ghetto, Renaissance, and Modern Oblivion , aims to broaden the horizons of historical performance practice, especially the baroque period. The Bacchus Consort’s performance of Salamone Rossi’s Sinfonia Grave à 5 had opened Gould’s Babylon film. Gould’s online series has rec...

The art historian Leo Steinberg (1920-2011) was known for defying orthodoxy, most memorably in his 1983 book The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, in which he argued that the genitals depicted in images of the infant Jesus and the Passion were crucial to establishing the saviour’s essential humanity. The book ruffled feathers: some found the topic prurient, while others challenged Steinberg’s interpretation of the visual evidence. But most were struck by the incisiveness of his conversational voice, which he had already wielded in essays and criticism about a...