What famous sculpture was sometimes censored with a fig leaf?
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Although accounts vary on when squeamish authorities of the day started covering the lower extremity of Michelangelo’s David with a fig leaf, PBS reported that the plaster leaf was affixed to a California copy of the sculpture in 1939 and eventually removed in 1969.
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Petr Svarc/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
What famous sculpture was sometimes censored with a fig leaf?
- Michelangelo’s David
- Michelangelo’s Pieta
- Alexandros of Antioch’s Venus De Milo
- Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss
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