It is very interesting that there is such a heated discussion about the body. Although they may have never heard, " The body is a temple", Gilio seems to think that the body would not hold the same power over the practitioners of the church if they were to be nude. Not only that but allegory and unspoken suggestion with in a painting was highly dictated. Michelangelo's pose for Christ as he looks upon the damned gained much recognition because the unspoken power of it was so intense. The body becomes a symbol of power or untruth and for those that could not read or write this was their suggestion to the meaning of their lives. Being able to capture an emotional response from a viewer from a highly responsive painting like Correggio, was much more important than a rational response. It was the painters job to tell the viewer something, not build it up with facts. The fact that this was how the Church was able to intense followers to keep believing in what they were feeding them was extremely important, and they new it.
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