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I do not vote for deleting the prints attributed to Agostino Carracci showing rather graphic depictions of Ovidian loving. However, I would use links for these prints. They are part of his prodigious output and not what most scholars or contemporaries or even himself, was likely to interpret as his masterpieces. I would help to add some background text as to where these came from and the context. I fall in the category of partial censorship, not complete exile, but what I would call sensible placement. I would like Wikipedia to be a site that is open to all, including school age. Some find such art objectionable for children, and would block the site from children. I do not want the site to be blocked for children, any children. I or you may disagree with what should be objectionable, but we should agree that it is objectionable to some. Enough that it merits some sort of "gateway" link with a disclaimer. The pictures as they now stand provide an entree into far more explicit material than a child exploring religious baroque art is expecting to find.
-Carravagisti
I have again altered the presentation of this entry. I would prefer to see some degree of gateway to the images. I think this is only fair, since in their day, as today, such images would usually have a gateway or disclaimer. I challenge anyone to find me mainstream, publicly exhibited Renaissance art that covers the themes in this manner. Again, nudity is not the issue, but the issue is that in its day, such depictions would have been thought prurient. I believe that would be true today for some. I am a believer that even if this were a minority, it has a right to be accomodated. In addtion, I believe that all "open" sites should have full disclosure of what a chance encounter would show. If such images were part of the entry on Carracci of say Britannica or some other major source, then I would feel more comfortable with them up front.
