Jun
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Sewellisms # 19: Bronzed Bodies
‘nude women bathed, nude boys drew swords from scabbards, and nude Nubians stood guard. The small bronze was, it seems, a genre of art in which the nude, male and female, could abandon modesty and its futile wisps of drapery and stand full frontal at eye-level on the mantelpiece.’
‘it is at its best with nude male figures, either singly or performing some ghastly ritual of death or torment on some other male.’
- Brian Sewell, ‘Beautiful Bronzes from Ancient Rome’, Evening Standard, 27 May 2010, <http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23839088-beautiful-bronzes-from-ancient-rome.do>
AW: Sewell really brings to life the beauty of boys bronzes.
