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Renaissance paintings of Christ with this trait inspired a two-word Latin phrase coined by Leo Steinberg in a book partly titled for “Modern Oblivion.” Ten men with this title trait fight in front of dense vegetation in an engraving by the Florentine goldsmith Antonio del Pollaiuolo (“poll-eye-WO-lo”). John Berger wrote that one term for this trait is a state of being whereas a synonym is a conventionalized artistic construct, responding to a “Study of Ideal Art” titled for a subject with this trait by Kenneth Clark. Daniele da Volterra removed depictions of this trait, earning the nickname Il Braghettone, in edits to Michelangelo’s Last Judgment made after the Council of Trent condemned this trait’s depiction in religious art. For 10 points, Renaissance artists often avoided depicting what trait via the inclusion of fig leaves? ■END■
ANSWER: nudity [or being nude; or nakedness; accept equivalents like being unclothed; accept answers mentioning display of the genitals or equivalents; prompt on sexuality or sexualized by asking “as depicted via what visual characteristic?”] (Leo Steinberg coined the phrase ostentatio genitalium, or “display of the genitals,” in The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion.)
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