| The Erotic Museum in Barcelona: iconic history. Woman atop a table dancing, something like an old Playboy cartoon in the rather more innocent, more fanciful days. No whips, no chains. When the sexes had a vague if uneasy fondness for each other. The liquid flowing from her body being caught by men with upraised champagne glasses. Two weeks later: The Petit Palace in Avignon. Repeated image in medieval religious paintings (e.g. Giovanni Bonse of Florence's, 1361-1371, "Le Cadavre avec Six Saints"): the blood of Christ spurting into the upraised cups of angels. |