It wasn't all that private. And you're not wrong--as much as people pushed back the church those years, it came late and weak to Florence. Monotheism and its chokehold on life were hard to ignore for an awful lot of them.

[ He snorts out a soft gush of air at the demurral of his question, and Ganymede shakes his head. His next words might well give Marius a clue, though. ] Aphrodite hates that painting. She finds the pose listless and thought Botticelli chickened out of doing her justice with the nudity.