Under the Loincloth
Frank Kermode, 3 April 1997
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
by Leo Steinberg.
Chicago, 417 pp., £23.95, January 1997,0 226 77187 3 Show More
by Leo Steinberg.
Chicago, 417 pp., £23.95, January 1997,
“... to be contemptuous or dismissive, so some venerable commentators – the late Lawrence Gowing, Michael Levey, Richard Wollheim, Marina Warner and, singled out for a special treatment, Charles Hope – are, in this new edition, keenly reprehended. It should be said that Steinberg, a lively and resourceful writer, could not with any justice be charged ... ”