Volume 31, Number 18 · November 22, 1984
A Long-Suppressed Episode
By Andre Chastel, Translated by Christopher Benfey, David Bellos
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
by Leo Steinberg
Pantheon, 222 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Professor Steinberg's book will shock only those who stop at his title and refuse to enter into the subtle language and logic of his argument. But serious readers (and everyone interested in Renaissance art should be a serious reader of this essay) may well find themselves tossed into a pit of 'christological' reflection, from which the only exit—in the absence of any toehold in standard iconographical literature—lies in total submission to the author.
Review, 3422 words
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