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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect there is more to this story.  But, having been a Middle School student and having raised Middle School students, I would suggest that there are plenty of examples of Renaissance Art that could have been shared rather than this one. This would not have been my choice.

But, I suspect there is a lot more than just sharing this picture. (And, the David I saw was in a building--I think that is a replica in the picture?)[/quote]

I taught 4th grade at a Catholic school in Kansas City, Missouri. When we read the book [i]From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler[/i] by E.L. Konigsburg (Author, Illustrator), we took a tour of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. It was such a fun language arts unit to teach. I had sent requests to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC for maps. They mailed free packets one for each student to go along with the novel.

When we toured the Nelson, I had parents with me. And I prepared the parents and the students ahead of time that they would see some images or sculptures of humans without clothes on or draped in clothes. My fourth grade students did "giggle" and laugh when they were at the museum and saw some of the art, but it would be the same as if they were listening to "opera". The children were great.

This famous sculpture by Rodin was a gift to Kansas City by Grant and Mathilde Rosenzweig and sits on the south lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

The Nelson has a copy of Copy after Michelangelo's "Aurora" [url]https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/2209/copy-after-michelangelos-aurora?ctx=6a0b5f1c-2072-498e-aba7-156b63510447&idx=152[/url]

There's also a statue of David in Sarasota, Florida visible to anyone who goes there. The statue of Michelangelo's "David" at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, is the only one in the Western Hemisphere.

As a GenXer woman, I'm so perplexed by the obsession of the right in Florida on this topic, when the beach is so nearby for one, and children there see much more of the human body than in most other states. And Miami is located in Florida, South Beach of all places, where it's not exactly conservative.[/quote]

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Taught by nuns in middle school and they were excellent teachers of renaissance art. There was no blushing when talking about art. But then again not only were they religious but also educated.

There is something about this whole movement that smacks of letting the ignorant and stupid define what is educational.
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Ever the British series on PBS with Sr. Wendy?[/quote]

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