INVESTIGATING CLAIMS OF EROTICISM IN IMAGES OF THE ANNUNCIATION

Investigating Claims of Eroticism in Images of the Annunciation

The usefulness of religious images to the Christian Church in late-medieval Europe had long Spring been appreciated, but their function was most clearly expressed from the time of Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) onwards.Images were to instruct the illiterate and the ignorant, to remind devotees about the mysteries of the faith by reference to the exemplar

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