The bather. The female body bathing. 

One of western arts favorite Motifs. Female Renaissance artists were not allowed to use live models, a restriction which greatly hampered their artistic development and sequestered them to a life of exquisite still lives and bouquets.

I want us all to bathe more! And I want us to bathe in a social manner. 

Bathing methods, bathing beliefs and bathing taboos are mirrors of a society and its zeitgeist - ask Americans why you can’t go naked into a sauna or members of the DDR why FKK is so healthy. Today’s lecture is broken up into the chapters: An abridged history of the bath; Watch Me Take a Bath; Bathing in the Arts; Amerigo Bathspucci;  and A Case For Social Bathing. Bathing offers us a glance into a social history as well as a historical one. It is a journey into privatization and individualization of an act we all do.