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This week, the more conservative echelons of Spanish society have been restive. For Easter Week in Seville, artist Salustiano García has produced a portrait of Jesus Christ that critics have described as “effeminate” – a word I hadn’t heard for about 25 years. García’s portrait is fairly horrid: a Calvin Klein model of a Messiah pouting against a crimson background, with a ruched cloth covering his modesty. Yet the outcry is – well, you might say “anachronistic”, were it not for the fact that th ....

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