{"id":2140,"date":"2025-02-24T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/university-slaps-nudity-warning-on-birth-of-venus-painting\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:54:59","slug":"university-slaps-nudity-warning-on-birth-of-venus-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/university-slaps-nudity-warning-on-birth-of-venus-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"University slaps nudity warning on Birth of Venus painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-24 12:54:58<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The University of Roehampton has slapped a trigger warning on the Birth of Venus painting.<BR><br \/>\nStudents at the London university have been alerted that Sandro Botticelli&#8217;s 15th-century piece may cause them to be exposed to &#8220;some images of nudity&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe work shows the naked goddess arriving at the shore following her birth and the &#8220;preposterous&#8221; decision has been slammed by experts.<BR><br \/>\nMichael Daley, a director of campaign group Artwatch UK, said: &#8220;This is preposterous and pernicious. What kind of young adult university student might not be expecting to encounter nude figures in Western classical art?&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nFrank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, added: &#8220;If you imagine that the nudity in Middle Age and Renaissance art requires a content warning then no doubt you will find the sight of a can of beans triggering.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;One of the downsides of this exercise in artistic illiteracy is that it may distract students from fully engaging with the unique aesthetic experience of Renaissance art.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-02-24 12:54:58 The University of Roehampton has slapped a trigger warning on the Birth of Venus painting. Students at the London university have been alerted that Sandro Botticelli&#8217;s 15th-century piece&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}