During my trip to York I visited York Art Gallery.
The York Gallery presented new show of the city's most notable painter, William Etty, as Art and Controversy.
He was very controversial during his lifetime in the early and middle 19th century, and still is. His ambition to be the country's most famous painter of historical subjects was well suited to contemporary taste. He set out to supply his nude art with his huge and smaller canvases of stories from classical literature and the Old Testament.
It was the nudes he filled his works with that so worried his contemporaries. He gloried in flesh, male as well as female, painting naked women and he out to tell the moral of his tales of decadence and divine retribution.Pleasures of the flesh: William Etty's nudes
