Naked Jesus Part Of A Long Artistic Tradition

The nudity of Cosimo Cavallaro’s 6-foot-tall chocolate Jesus provoked the Lenten outrage of some Catholics — but whose tradition is it, anyway? “At least with respect to the nudity of his Christ, Cavallaro is in good company. The marble statue that Michelangelo delivered in 1525 to his patrons in Rome followed the stipulation in the contract, which specified ‘a marble figure of Christ as large as life, naked’.”