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Is it modesty, or something else, that depictions of Jesus on the cross show him covered with a loin cloth?

Asked by josie (30934points) January 29th, 2014

The Romans crucified people naked. I can sort of understand why Medieval and Renaissance artists, being intimidated by the Church, might have covered him up in their renderings. But the loin cloth tradition persists even into modernity.
Why is that?

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