Much art has been disliked purely because it depicted or otherwise stood for unpopular rulers, events or different groups. Artistic conventions have usually been conservative and taken very critically by art critics, though typically much much less so by a wider public. The iconographic content of art could trigger controversy, as with late medieval depictions of the brand new motif of the Swoon of the Virgin in scenes of the Crucifixion of Jesus. The Last Judgment by Michelangelo was controversial for numerous causes, including breaches of decorum through nudity and the Apollo-like pose of Christ.
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