/Pornography's Renaissance
The Positions, by Pietro Aretino, Giulio Romano, and Marcantonio Raimondi
By Christina Voss
A rough Renaissance woodcut depicts a couple in the act of sex. They are not gods indulging in some bacchanalian revelry, nor is the sex implied. Rather, the depiction is viewed from the feet as two figures copulate, and the radical foreshortening affords us a clear view of the act. ...
- 04/17/2009
