Originally conceived as just one part of the sculptor’s giant Gates of Hell, the embracing lovers are alleged to be Paolo and Francesca, who had been real people however immortalised as a lustful couple in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Surely the Preston nude cannot be the only one which brought on some controversy at the time… Artistic nudes have had an advanced historical past, tied up with the male gaze, the public perception of what was ‘decent’ at totally different occasions in history, faith, and loads of different factors. There isn’t any specific reaction recorded to this particular painting, nevertheless it …