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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts critics | A dream of slaughter |
 | | Battle of Nudes was a Renaissance cult, copied and revered. |
 | | It is not a famous battle or a specific battle, but an image, decontextualised and therefore dreamlike, of war naked, primal, instinctual. |
 | | Bertoldo's battle is the libidinal horrific release of everything that, as contemporaries so gratefully recognised and later generations wistfully remembered, Lorenzo the Magnificent restrained: the cruel opposite of the golden age. |
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