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[โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Didn't the Vatican whack them all off with hammers?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Phrasing. But yes, some of them - they seemed to prefer making plaster and metal fig leaves thankfully. Michelangelo wasn't thrilled about being told to change his work either. Some of them were whacked off earlier than the Catholics, and some were whacked off by the Vatican even as late as the 1850s in "The Great Castration".

    Many of the lost appendages were accidental though, natural disasters and the like did a lot of amputation and decapitation, to the point where there are entire catalogue methods for mismatched heads on statues.

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