Fig leaf

Fig leaf
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Fig leaf - Adam and Eve used the leaves of the fig tree to fashion coverings for their nether regions when they realized they were naked.

fig leaf - A stylized representation of a leaf from a fig tree or shrub used especially to conceal the genitalia depicted on sculptures of male nudes.

Also see erotica and fig leaf.
aisle - In architecture, a long, narrow space on either side of the nave of a church, usually between a row of columns or piers and the outer wall. It is often referred to as a side aisle.

Also see bad art, coarse, erotica and erotic art, feminism and feminist art, First Amendment rights, fig leaf, beauty, grotesque, love, nude, pain, pornography, sensuality, sex, sybaritic, and voyeurism.

Picasso's Absinthe Glass, 1914
Malevich's White on White, 1918
Man Ray's Gift, 1921
Magritte's The Treachery of Images, 1929
Meret Oppenheim's Fur Breakfast, 1936
Picasso's Bull's Head, 1942
Duchamp's Female Fig Leaf, 1950 ...

Classic examples of this are the removal of the parts of Greek sculpture representing male genitals (in the Vatican collection), and the addition of a fig leaf to a plaster cast of Michelangelo's sculpture of David for Queen Victoria's visit to the ...

See also: Painting, Sculpture, Movement, Glaze, Greek