... values which had tremendous influences on the innovative Renaissance painting and sculpture, the most important value was declared the familial one. Weddings and births were causes for great celebration and artists would create pieces to commemorate such occasions. The triumphant scene following a woman's achievement in birth is illustrated in a famous painting by Masaccio called A Birth Scene (1426). It shows a traditional birth ... to kill him unless the young man gave him what he wanted" (284). The more liberal view of homosexuality showed through in the somewhat ambiguous male adole...

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