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| Hans Baldung Grien Death and the Maiden 1517 Art museum Basel, Switzerland |
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The German painter Hans Baldung Grien shows a personification of death together with a young and beautiful maiden in this picture. German and Dutch Renaissance artists used to paint naked women as lifelike as possible, that is, with pubic hair or suggested pudental cleft. In this depiction of the female genital a few fine hair represent the pubic hair which thickens around the clitoris and vagina and covers them both. In the course of the 16th century the Italian representation of the female genital became accepted. It was geared to the ancient depictions of large sculptures and at most showed a naked vulva triangle.
Biography: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Baldung (Translation: C. Wilhelm)
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