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of equal force

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Here Sluijter asserts that although a notion of the artist as an Apelles, inspired by his desire and love for his model to produce beautiful art, had currency in Rembrandt's Holland, of equal force were broad cultural concerns about the erotic charge inherent in images of the female nude.
Based on the prototypical combat situation, with two men of roughly equal size and strength, the doctrine of equal force makes sense: If attacked by a man without a deadly weapon, another man may not justifiably defend himself with a deadly weapon.
 
 
 
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