The buttock
The expression "coûter la peau des fesses" in French literally translates as "to cost the skin of one's buttocks", and means "to cost an arm and a leg".
Since prehistoric times, buttocks have been represented on countless occasions. It is one of the most popular subjects in the history of art.
You cannot visit a museum without finding representations of male or female buttocks in paintings, sculpture, photographs or even in live performances.
This part of our anatomy, particularly enhanced in certain periods and represented in varying degrees of eroticism or immodesty, can be extremely suggestive (the prehistoric Venus Kallipygos [meaning "Venus of the beautiful buttocks"], Courbet's ample curves, Boucher's enticing odalisques) and rarely leaves us indifferent, sometimes challenging our aesthetic demands, prejudices and moral codes.
