Should Religious Art Require a Fig Leaf?

USA TODAY
By Peggy Stack Fletcher, The Salt Lake Tribune

"Adam and Eve in Paradise" (c. 1525) By Jan Gossaert

UTAH - From the prudish impulses of the Counter-Reformation, to the Vatican's use of the fig leaf as a genital cover-up a century later, to modern Christians objecting to a nude Christ sculpted out of chocolate, there have always been those who wanted to see everything clothed. Scores of believers oppose any nakedness in art as blasphemous — even a glimpse of the Virgin Mary's breast as she nurses her baby son — or akin to pornography. For other Christians, though, the line between celebrating and eschewing artistic nudity is neither easy nor clear-cut. [link]