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ct itself in art.Nude art was the natural and necessary expression of a nationalpassion. The intensity of this passion, in itself pure and whole-some, was such as to burn all noxious elements away. So farfrom being a panderer to baseness, it was the most effectivebulwark against it. The spectator… … Fig. 36. — Apollo Strangford. British Museum, London. Art and Democracy 109 nude was unknown. The reason was precisely that which makesthe modern mind hesitant. When in the fourth century venture-some art takes up the forbidden theme, the universal protectiveinstinct asserts itself in quick…
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