Where Purity is the Covering of All Flesh and no private part of the human body may be shown and thus where the lack of Purity is Dishonesty and therefore are Dishonest Paintings wherein are depicted female ******* and such buttocks and navel and where genitalia female or male asleep or awake and such are shown and crotches and such flesh and curvatures may arouse such being Dishonest Paintings the Eminent Guardians of Purity announce multiple positions vacant of Reviewer of Dishonest Paintings and so to cover up with black paint any signs of ******* and so of any other part of images in such paintings as buttocks cover up with black paint and so on each Dishonest part of human anatomy to be covered with black paint and in this task one always to use a firm, long brush - the longer and firmer the better for the Soul - so that one may not come too close to such obscenities as coming close one may be aroused to ***** desires in male (Females need not apply for said position for such lascivious creatures are always in a state of wet desires) and so in covering with black paint the Sanctity and the Will of Heaven prevails and human souls transported to Divine Ecstasy at the sight of paintings with black holes corrected by expert Reviewer of Dishonest Paintings and such positions to be filled by honest men firm in their resolve and long in stamina and determination they should arrange their own transport for various locations in the Holy Empire for indeed Various Positions are available and while the renumeration is handsome derived from confiscation of properties and means of the Perpetrators of those Works of Perfidy and Damnation those Artists who produce and who engender Dishonest Paintings and such Works and far more too included in Renumeration is the Seat of Purity in Heaven - O the pay shall be Eternal Heaven Apply directly and in person at the South Wall of the Grand House of Divinity - put your scrolls in the holes
At the age of fourteen Goya was sent to study drawing under the guidance of a man who was employed by the Inquisition as their Reviewer of Dishonest Paintings, which meant his job was to conceal human nakedness in the work of the Old Masters, using a carefully added swirl of cloth, a shadow or the floating presence of a leaf.
- page 20, Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn (ISBN 0-224-06279-4) Jonathan Cape, London 2002