文艺复兴时期的欧洲,男女关系仍然延续男性为中心的认知与思维。女性的道德操守与行为,一直受到较为严格的尺度规范。贞洁是女性的首要课题。女性的身体与其说是个人身心真实感受的承载着与表现着,不如说是社会阶级下的制约体和文化产物。基督教传统对女性贞洁的严格要求以及对肉体享乐的排斥,在某种意义上,文艺复兴时期的艺术家们通过绘画也表达另一种精神的追求。美国著名的历史学家琼·凯利(Joan Kelly)在 In the Renaissance Europe, the relationship between men and women continues the male-centered cognition and thinking. Women’s ethics and behavior have been subject to more stringent standards. Chastity is the first issue of women. Women’s body is not so much an expression of personal reality rather than an actual body and mind as it is a body of restraint and culture under the social class. In a sense, Renaissance artists, through their paintings, express another spiritual pursuit for the strict demands of Christianity on women’s chastity and the exclusion of physical pleasure. The famous American historian Joan Kelly is at