Today I will talk about a new that relate with the archaeology and history. This new may be a little strange and is about a theme that maybe uncomfortable for some, but the way that the society sees the sex is purely cultural. And the new that I chose talk about this vision that each culture have about the sex.
The new is about the discovery of a bronze disk found in Putney, London, beside the river Thames. This disk is a roman piece depicting sex act and was specially made for spend in the ancient roman brothels and used for hire prostitutes. The disk is an old piece of British erotic art and tokens the erotic imaginary of the Romans.
The piece is evidence that in the Roman Londinium the brothels were occupied as in the Roman metropolis. Too, gives us information about the hidden art of the life of Roman Britain. In Roma was very common the erotic and pornography art, some cultural manifestations of this thinking are the walls painted with scenes of sex in the constructions of Pompeii. These roman tokens had a direct influence in the birth of the modern pornography.
While, the piece is a rare discovery from Roman Britain, in the Italian Renaissance were well know this type of artefacts; although scholars don not know what they were. But as in the Renaissance everything from ancient cultures was considered noble, the scholars called these pieces as art, including the series erotic illustrations of Giulio Romano.
Some of the classical erotic images engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi (1480-1534), a Italian renaissance engraver, emulate the images on tokens like the disk Roman London. The “I Modi”, (a famous erotic book of the Italian Renaissance), became a bestseller all over Europe and returned to the London of Shakespeare. It set the new style of erotic art of the Renaissance.
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