What evidence suggests that An Allegory with Venus and Cupid is an example of the privatization of sex in Western culture?

a) the site and nature of its original commission
b) the condemnation it received from the Italian court
c) censorship of its French patron and artist
d) the depiction of recognizable people in the image


Answer: a

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