![]() ![]() You can find our complete privacy promise here: We don't use cookies, or have trackers on our website and only require an email address to activate the app. We take pride in being a privacy company and do not promote any distribution mechanisms that can embed any malware within our app. This way you’ll also get the most recent and most stable version of the app. There might be a number of other resources offering FigLeaf, but we strongly recommend downloading from our official website to ensure that it has not been manipulated by anyone. That’s why the sideload option is needed. Currently, the FigLeaf beta app is distributed through our official website. I worry about how much control you have to give it to install and runįigLeaf beta might ask for administration rights to install the software in case the "sideload" option is turned off on your Windows device. Hey, u/kdberg2! Thanks for your feedback. I will update when I get the answer to question 3. We use the Amazon Cognito service for authentication and for encrypted data storing. Is that where your servers are/will be located? A: Our infrastructure is based on AWS. Q: I also see that the company is located in Cyprus. I will send this question to our Product Manager, and we will send the answer as soon as possible. Do you know what information you will be using to confirm this? Will you simply have some random identifier or will you be using Names/E-Mails/or something else? A: I am terribly sorry for this inconvenience, but it is beyond my scope for now. Q: Eventually, you will obviously need to know who is paying for the services. Q: Do you know what the plan pricing is going to be? A: Unfortunately, we have no information about it. Until then, enjoy the free beta app and regain control of your online privacy. Q: How do you plan on monetizing your services down the road? Will their be a user cost? A: When we announce FigLeaf is leaving its beta phase, the app will be updated and our plans and pricing will go into effect. I did reach out to their support team with a few questions. Luckily, because of movements to uncensor artwork many pieces that were covered have been restored to the artists’ original visions.I have never heard of it either. The “Fig Leaf Campaign” has been considered the biggest case of art censorship in history. This can be seen in Masaccio’s 15th-century frescoes found in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence where nudes of Adam and Eve leaving the Garden of Eden had fig leaves painted over them. Some scholars even suggest, by order of Pope Paul IV, that phalli were chiseled right off the statues. In response, statues all across Italy were covered with metal fig leaves. Six decades later, the Catholic church issued an edict declaring, “figures shall not be painted or adorned with a beauty exciting to lust.” Then, the clergy began a mission to cover nudes (often using fig leaves) in something called the “Fig Leaf Campaign.” From this story, the Christian church viewed nudity as synonymous with a fall from grace and shame.ĭespite their opposition to the promiscuity of Michelangelo’s statue, the Catholic church didn’t crack down on artistic nudity until 60 years after the unveiling of “David”. Soon after the unveiling of Michelangelo’s “David” in 1504, the authorities placed a bronze garland of fig leaves around the waist of the sculpture.īut why fig leaves specifically? Their roots are found in Genesis when Adam and Eve covered their nakedness and shame with leaves after they had eaten the forbidden fruit. ![]() The Catholic church didn’t take kindly to the idea of publicly displayed nudes. ![]() However, something changed–the fig leaf came into play. These motifs were carried throughout history as artists continued to be inspired by classical art. Rather, in the case of a larger phallus it represented the ideas of savagery and lack of self-control. For the Greeks, a smaller phallus meant wisdom and refinement–the ideal values of a Greek male. However, on sculptures of beastly figures like Satyrs, the endowment is obscene and completely unrealistic. ![]() On most sculptures and depictions of male figures, the men are not well-endowed. Yet, there is still one thing that the Greeks placed even further symbolic value in: the size of male genitalia. Today, nudes are seen as inappropriate or taboo however, in Greek culture these figures represented an idealistic form of human beauty with symmetrical proportions throughout the body. What tends to come to mind when thinking about ancient Greek art? Usually it’s beautifully crafted sculptures of humans or Greek gods. ![]()
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