by Jon Lackman | 14 February 2008 | Uncategorized
Power enough to persuade the London Underground to ban the Royal Academy from using his “Venus” in a Tube advertisement. The Guardian writes:
… if Cranach’s nudes didn’t prevent his friendship with Martin Luther – hardly a slouch in the morality department, what with the Reformation and all – you wonder if they are really, truly, inappropriate now … I have no doubt that a little bit of a frisson was at the back of the RA’s mind when they chose this picture for the poster – which museum can afford to ignore sex appeal these days? – but really, in what kind of a society does a frisson require censorship?
