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4. post-Renaissance.
This anonymous 18th century erotic Japanese print, "Exchanging Breath" is remarkably detailed in a few lines. |
Cristoforo Stati's effete "Orpheus" (early 1600s) is in the Mannerist style. |
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His penis is still small, after the classical fashion. |
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
This hairless youth's puppyfat overhangs the beginning of his penis. He has a disinct corona and a slight acroposthion |
- Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles,
late 18th C
This statue of a more mature man (Hercules?) has weathered after some 250 years outside, but still shows a clear acroposthion |
This, Le Départ de 1792 (La Marseillaise) on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (facing the Avenue de Freidland), must have one of the most viewed penises in the world. The sculpture is 12.8 m high and the naked figure is 6 m tall. By François Rude, 1784-1855 |
200 years later, Bertel Thorvaldsen's |
Neue Pinakotek, Munich
Thorvaldsen's Jason , though
mature, still has a small penis, but with a shorter acroposthion Thorvaldsen (1770–1844) was a struggling artist until this work made his name. He spent most of his life in Italy, but left a museum devoted to his work in Copenhagen. |
- Thorvaldsensmuseum, Copenhagen
This sketch by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is completely unselfconscious: neither Rodin nor his model would have given a second thought to the fact that the man still had his foreskin. It was simply a given. |
Musée Rodin, Paris
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