Kardashian's selfie is a psalm to the female body that beholds back to the freeing depictions of adequate ladies in Renaissance and ornate workmanship – and demonstrates that our own is the most misanthrope age in histo

Kim Kardashian reclaims the beauty of being pregnant in her latest impressive selfie. In soft light, she sports an even more curvaceous form than usual: even more contours to revel in.

It’s a hymn to the female body that would have been far more familiar in the Renaissance than today. Stomach bulges are so common in Renaissance nudes that historians argue over whether or not they represent pregnancy. Van Eyck’s Eve and Raphael’s La Fornarina can both be seen as pregnant – or not – and their stomachs are very much part of their sensuality.

But then, body shapes were celebrated much more plurally in the past than they are today. Ours is the most misogynist age in history, if art is anything to go by. Only in our time does every image of beauty tell women to get thin, thin, thin. All those “fat” women in paintings by Rubens were not even commented on in that way in his time – it is a modern perception. Rich, ample, curvy, rampant flesh is, for Rubens, simply and obviously sexy. Titian’s Venus of Urbino, the most beautiful woman in art, would be seen as plump today – if not.. Read more..


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