Effie Gray explained in a letter of five years later “he had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was, and that the reason he didn't make me depilacja laserowa diodowa his Wife was as they was disgusted with my person”. Although we’ll never get through to the bottom, so to speak, in the reasons for Ruskin’s reaction, it’s been widely assumed that they was traumatised by Effie’s male organ hair.

And, frankly, no surprise. For an English male art historian with the nineteenth century, steeped inside classical tradition and Italian Renaissance art, the expected female body would surely have been completely hairless. But how did these pictures interact with the way women treated their very own bodies? Did the reinvention with the female nude in renaissance Italy go hand in hand with a vogue for body traditional hair removal?