Posted July 16, 2013
Thanks and +1 for your generosity, Telika!
Please, count me in (but if I win, would be OK to re-gift the prize to a generous forum member?)
How about the censorship in games' covers? Check the diferences between this three covers of the Spanish title "Game Over":
the original Spanish one, and the totally covered one.
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EDIT: I've seen Lifthrasil ninja'ed me about Michelangelo, but I'll leave untouched my prior example, anyways:
I'm going to pick as example The Last Judgment by Michelangelo. From two articles in Wikipedia:
"The Last Judgment was an object of a bitter dispute between Cardinal Carafa and Michelangelo. Because he depicted naked figures, the artist was accused of immorality and obscenity. A censorship campaign (known as the "Fig-Leaf Campaign") was organized by Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua's ambassador) to remove the frescoes. When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena said "it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns," Michelangelo worked da Cesena's semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld. It is said that when he complained to the Pope, the pontiff responded that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain."
"The genitalia in the fresco, referred to as 'objectionable,' were painted over with drapery after Michelangelo died in 1564 by the Mannerist artist Daniele da Volterra, whom history remembers by the derogatory nickname "Il Braghettone" ("the breeches-painter"), when the Council of Trent condemned nudity in religious art."
"The fresco was restored along with the Sistine vault between 1980 and 1994 [...] During the course of the restoration about half of the censorship of the "Fig-Leaf Campaign" was removed. Numerous pieces of buried details, caught under the smoke and grime of scores of years were revealed after the restoration. It was discovered that the fresco of Biagio de Cesena as Minos with donkey ears was being bitten in the genitalia by a coiled snake. Another discovery is of the figure condemned to Hell directly below and to the right of St. Bartholomew with flayed skin. It was, for centuries, considered to be male until removal of the "fig leaf" showed that it was female."
Please, count me in (but if I win, would be OK to re-gift the prize to a generous forum member?)
How about the censorship in games' covers? Check the diferences between this three covers of the Spanish title "Game Over":
the original Spanish one, and the totally covered one.
----
EDIT: I've seen Lifthrasil ninja'ed me about Michelangelo, but I'll leave untouched my prior example, anyways:
I'm going to pick as example The Last Judgment by Michelangelo. From two articles in Wikipedia:
"The Last Judgment was an object of a bitter dispute between Cardinal Carafa and Michelangelo. Because he depicted naked figures, the artist was accused of immorality and obscenity. A censorship campaign (known as the "Fig-Leaf Campaign") was organized by Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua's ambassador) to remove the frescoes. When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena said "it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns," Michelangelo worked da Cesena's semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld. It is said that when he complained to the Pope, the pontiff responded that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain."
"The genitalia in the fresco, referred to as 'objectionable,' were painted over with drapery after Michelangelo died in 1564 by the Mannerist artist Daniele da Volterra, whom history remembers by the derogatory nickname "Il Braghettone" ("the breeches-painter"), when the Council of Trent condemned nudity in religious art."
"The fresco was restored along with the Sistine vault between 1980 and 1994 [...] During the course of the restoration about half of the censorship of the "Fig-Leaf Campaign" was removed. Numerous pieces of buried details, caught under the smoke and grime of scores of years were revealed after the restoration. It was discovered that the fresco of Biagio de Cesena as Minos with donkey ears was being bitten in the genitalia by a coiled snake. Another discovery is of the figure condemned to Hell directly below and to the right of St. Bartholomew with flayed skin. It was, for centuries, considered to be male until removal of the "fig leaf" showed that it was female."
Post edited July 16, 2013 by Thespian*
