Show The Human Form Divine The Naples correspondent of the Lon don Times writes Many years have passed since when a resident in Rome I often dropped into the studio of our own English sculptor John Gibson He was full of intelligence which was rendered yet more interesting by his quaintness I remember that one morning he said to me with a low chuckle Yesterday I received a visit from a Scotch lady sir and she said to me Tray Mr Gibson why do you sculptors always indulge in representing the human form nude It is so indecent and demoralizing I Madam I replied it is because we think that God Almighty knew how to represent the human form far better than the tailor or the milliner and as to indecency I should have no opinion of the modesty of a woman who could not look on the noblest works of creation without a blush |