Art of peeing

Description:One gestures in faint surprise; somebody has captured their attention. The fact is, a river of piss runs through art history. For centuries, painters and sculptors have depicted the act of urination. Most of all, young boys piss, so much so that scholars assigned a Latin term, puer mingens, to their ubiquitous appearances. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Courtesy David Zwirner Books In the beginning was the pissing boy, the putto.

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