Many paintings from the Renaissance are pretty erotic. Do we have any documentation of patrons or collectors using them as high-class pornography? Did patrons ever request certain erotic scenes? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Many paintings from the Renaissance are pretty erotic. Do we have any documentation of patrons or collectors using them as high-class pornography? Did patrons ever request certain erotic scenes?

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hi! there's lots of room for more input on this, but you may be interested in this similar earlier question

During the Renaissance era, were any paintings commissioned for masturbatory reasons? For example, did some rich prince get Leonardo Da Vinci to paint him naked women he could pleasure himself to?