Art History’s Nude

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Art History’s Nude

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In retrospect, I thought of William Blake who believed that a naked woman is the most brilliant work of God. Michelangelo found a foot to be nobler than a shoe. Edgar Degas found them all the more interesting in a tub. Robert Henri thought respect for the nude would eliminate shame. Auguste Rodin named it an eternal form and a joy to all the ages, the body expressing the spirit that envelopes it and for those who can see, the NUDE offers the richest meaning.

Like an echo from some primitive rite, rendering nudity is a time-honored craft and one of the few acceptable forms of public nakedness. Even medical doctors do not have the privilege of staring for hours. Whether old or young, male or female, plain or beautiful, when stripped of its fashions, the human body has integrity. You feel the energy within; the brush begins to speak in body language.

A nude woman is treated as a kind of illuminated landscape; hills and valleys, a complex puzzle of beauty and practicality and form that follows function. It's the exercise of all exercises, light and shadow, chiaroscuro--the sphere, the cone, the cylinder.

Kenneth Clark opens his classic study, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, pointed out that: "in the greatest age of painting, the nude inspired the greatest works; and even when it ceased to be a compulsive subject it held its position as an academic exercise and a demonstration of mastery".

It did so, he explains because the nude as a conceptual and artistic category always involved the notion of an ideal abstracted from the reality we confront in our everyday lives. As such, we may add, the nude in art plays a role similar to that of the hero in epic: it provides the means and occasion to figure forth what a particular society takes to be greatest excellence.

The nude, therefore, "is not the subject of art, but a form of art", in part because

"The body is not one of those subjects which can be made into art by direct transcription — like a tiger or a snowy landscape. . . . We do not wish to imitate; we wish to perfect" — an idea, like so many others, perhaps first formulated by Aristotle "with his usual deceptive simplicity. ’Art,' he says, 'completes what nature cannot bring to a finish.

The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.' A great many assumptions underlie this statement, the chief of which is that everything has an ideal form of which the phenomena of experience are more or less corrupted replicas. . . . Every time we criticize a figure, saying that a neck is too long, hips are too wide or breasts too small, we are admitting, in quite concrete terms, the existence of ideal beauty".

“The nude” is an important facet of the artistic tradition dating back to ancient times, making the unclothed figure unavoidable in a comprehensive consideration of art.

Nudity can be discussed in terms of the reasons artists choose to portray the human body or form without clothing:

1. The human form is beautiful, making it an ideal subject for art.

2. The human body can be expressive. It may be used to express a full range of emotions and feelings to which the viewers can relate. Viewers might be encouraged to recreate the subject’s pose in hopes of better understanding the expressive qualities of the work, perhaps taking their minds off the fact that the subject is unclothed. A possible subject for discussion, too, is the difference between “nudity” and “nakedness.”

3. The human form is part of the commonality which holds the human race together.

It is familiar to all peoples regardless of background, sex, education, culture, or ethnic identity. Thus, artists often use the human form in their art to express universal truths and to address those ideas or concepts which bind all human beings together.

4. Because of our familiarity with the human form, artists can use the human form to symbolize human values, e.g., a pregnant woman or nursing mother often symbolizes innocence. Also, artists can use distortion of the body or simplification of human form to achieve an emotional recognition and intellectual response to the artwork from the viewer because of our immediate identification with the human form.

5. The human body contains variations of all geometric shapes such as the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, the cube, etc., making it an ideal subject for exercises in rendering and demonstrating artistic ability and creativity. The body is viewed as a design form of shapes, highlights, and shadows.

6. The human body is anatomically consistent, which makes it a good subject to represent realistically. Throughout history artists have gone to great lengths, including dissection, to examine human anatomy to achieve artistic accuracy.

*Note: This post contains imagery of nude in paintings, sculpture, illustrations, sketches, poster art and photography in ART History. Viewer discretion is advised.

LIST OF ARTISTS/MOVEMENTS:

 

ACADEMIC ART:

SCHEFFER, Ary • 1795-1858 Dutch/French Painter

ACADEMIC CLASSICISM:

AMAURY DUVAL, Eugene-Emmanuel

• 1808-1885 French Painter

BAUDRY, Paul

• 1828-1886 French Painter

BOLDINI, Giovanni

• 1842-1931 Italian Painter

BOUGUEREAU, William-Adolphe

• 1825-1905 French Painter

BOUTIBONNE, Charles Edward

• 1816-1897 French Painter

CABANEL, Alexandre

• 1823-1889 French Painter

COUTURE, Thomas

• 1815-1879 French Painter

DEBAT PONSAN, Edouard Bernard

• 1847-1913 French Painter

FIRMIN GIRARD, Marie-François

• 1838-1921 French Painter

GERVEX, Henri

• 1852-1929 French Painter

GLAIZE, Auguste

• 1807-1893 French Painter

GLEYRE, Charles

• 1808-1874 Swiss Painter

JAMIN, Paul

• 1853-1903 French Painter

LEFEBVRE, Jules-Joseph

• 1836-1911 French Painter

LEVY, Emile

• 1826-1890 French Painter

ART DECO:

de LEMPICKA, Tamara

• 1898-1980 Polish/American Painter

ART NOVEAU:

MOSER, Koloman

• 1868-1918 Austrian Painter – Designer

ART NOUVEAU/NABIS

MAILLOL, Aristide

• 1861-1944 French Sculptor

BAROQUE:

BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo

• 1598-1680 Italian Painter, Sculptor and Architect

CAGNACCI, Guido

• 1601-1681 Italian Painter

CARAVAGGIO), Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da

• ca.1571-1610 Italian Painter

CARRACCI, Agostino

• 1557-1602 Italian Painter

CARRACCI, Annibale

• 1560-1609 Italian Painter

de RIBERA ( SPAGNOLETTO ), Jusepe

• 1591-1652 Spanish/Italian Painter

DOMENICHINO (Domenico Zampieri)

• 1581-1641 Italian Painter

GENTILESCHI, Orazio

• ca.1563-1639 Italian Painter

GIORDANO, Luca

• 1632-1705 Italian Painter

GUERCINO (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

• 1591-1666 Italian Painter

LISS, Johann

• ca.1597-1631 German Painter

POUSSIN, Nicolas

• 1594-1665 French Painte

REMBRANDT van Rijn

• 1606-1669 Dutch Painter and Engraver

RENI, Guido

• 1575-1642 Italian Painter

RUBENS, Peter Paul

• 1577-1640 Flemish Painter

SARACENI, Carlo

• 1579-1620 Italian Painter

VAN DYCK, Sir Anthony

• 1599-1641 Flemish Painter

VELÁZQUEZ (or VELÁSQUEZ), Diego

• 1599-1660 Spanish Painter

CONCRETISM:

CAROLRAMA (Olga Carol Rama)

• born 1918- Italian Painter

CONTEMPORARY REALISM:

WYETH, Andrew

• 1917-2009 American Painter

CUBISM:

LEGER, Fernand

• 1881-1955 French Painter

PICASSO, Pablo

• 1881-1973 Spanish Painter and Sculptor

DADA/SURREALISM:

BALTHUS

• 1908-2001 French Painter

DUCHAMP, Marcel

• 1887-1968 French/American Conceptual Artist

ERNST, Max

• 1891-1976 German/French Painter

EARLY RENAISSANCE:

BOTTICELLI, Sandro

• 1445-1510 Italian Painter

della QUERCIA, Jacopo

• ca.1371-1438 Italian Sculptor

DONATELLO

• 1386-1466 Italian Sculptor

GIOTTO (Giotto di Bondone)

• 1267-1337 Italian Painter

MASACCIO (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni Cassai)

• 1401-1428 Italian Painter

PERUGINO (Pietro Vannucci), Pietro

• ca.1445-1523 Italian Painter

POLLAIOLO, Antonio

• ca.1432-1498 Italian Painter and Sculptor

RIZZO, Antonio

• active 1465-1499- Italian Sculptor

VENEZIANO, Domenico

• ca.1405-1461 Italian Painter

EXPRESSIONISM:

BACON, Francis

• 1909-1992 Irish/English Painter

GRIEBEL, Otto

• 1895-1972 German Painter

GUTTUSO, Renato

• 1912-1987 Italian Painter

KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig

• 1880-1938 German Painter and Sculptor

MACKE, August

• 1887-1914 German Painter

MARC, Franz

• 1880-1916 German Painter

MARINI, Marino

• 1901-1980 Italian Sculptor and Painter

MODIGLIANI, Amedeo

• 1884-1920 Italian Painter and Sculptor

ROUAULT, George

• 1871-1958 French Painter

SCHIELE, Egon

• 1890-1918 Austrian Painter

FAUVISM:

MATISSE, Henri

• 1869-1954 French Painter and Sculptor

FOLK ART:

ROUSSEAU (Le Douanier Rousseau), Henri

• 1844-1910 French Painter

FUTURISM:

BOCCIONI, Umberto

• 1882-1916 Italian Painter and Sculptor

CARRÀ, Carlo

• 1881-1966 Italian Painter

SIRONI, Mario

• 1885-1961 Italian Painter

GOLDEN AGE of ILLUSTRATION:

PARRISH, Maxfield

• 1870-1966 American Painter – Illustrator

GOTHIC ART:

LIMBOURG BROTHERS (Paul, Hermann and Jean)

• active ca.1400- Netherlandish Manuscript Illustrator

PISANO, Giovanni

• ca.1250-1314 Italian Sculptor and Architect

PISANO, Nicola

• 1258-1278 Italian Sculptor

HIGH RENAISSANCE:

BELLINI, Giovanni

• 1426-1516 Italian Painter

di COSIMO, Piero

• ca.1462-1521 Italian Painter

DOSSI, Dosso

• ca.1490-1542 Italian Painter

GIAMPIETRINO (Gian Pietro Rizzi)

• active 1495-1549- Italian Painter

GIORGIONE (Giorgio Zorzi )

• ca.1477-1510 Italian Painter

LEONARDO DA VINCI

• 1452-1519 Italian Painter, Sculptor and Architect

LOTTO, Lorenzo

• ca.1480-1556 Italian Painter

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI ( Painter )

• 1475-1564 Italian Painter, Sculptor and Architect

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (Sculptor)

• 1475-1564 Italian Painter, Sculptor and Architect

PALMA IL VECCHIO, Jacopo

• ca.1480-1528 Italian Painter

RAPHAEL (RAFFAELLO SANZIO)

• 1483-1520 Italian Painter

SIGNORELLI, Luca

• ca.1441-1523 Italian Painter

TITIAN (TIZIANO)

• ca.1488-1576 Italian Painter

IMPRESSIONISM:

BAZILLE, Frederic

• 1841-1870 French Painter

RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste

• 1841-1919 French Painter

MANNERISM:

ALLORI, Alessandro

• 1535-1607 Italian Painter - Portraitist

BRONZINO, Agnolo

• 1503-1572 Italian Painter

CELLINI, Benvenuto

• 1500-1571 Italian Sculptor and Goldsmith

CLOUET, François

• ca.1510-1572 French Painter

CORREGGIO (Antonio Allegri )

• ca.1489-1534 Italian Painter

El GRECO ( Domenikos Theotokopoulos )

• 1541-1614 Greek/Spanish Painter

GIAMBOLOGNA (Jean de Boulogne)

• 1529-1608 Flemish/Italian Sculptor

MASTERS OF THE FONTAINEBLEAU SCHOOL

• 1500- French Painter

PARMIGIANINO (Francesco Mazzola )

• 1503-1540 Italian Painter

PILON, Germain

• ca.1530-1590 French Sculptor

PONTORMO (Jacopo Carucci)

• 1494-ca. 1556 Italian Painter

ROSSO FIORENTINO (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo)

• ca. 1495-1540 Italian Painter

SANSOVINO (Jacopo Tatti), Jacopo

• 1486-1570 Italian Sculptor

SPRANGER, Bartholomeus

• 1546-1611 Flemish Painter

TINTORETTO, Jacopo

• ca. 1518-1594 Italian Painter

VERONESE (Paolo Caliari ), Paolo

• ca. 1528-1588 Italian Painter

VON AACHEN, Hans

• 1552-1615 German Painter

NABIS:

BONNARD, Pierre

• 1867-1947 French Painter

VALLOTTON, Félix

• 1865-1925 Swiss/French Painter

NEOCLASSICISM:

ALMA-TADEMA, Sir Lawrence

• 1836-1912 Dutch/English Painter

CANOVA, Antonio

• 1757-1822 Italian Sculptor

DAVID, Jacques-Louis

• 1748-1825 French Painter

FLANDRIN, Hippolyte

• 1809-1864 French Painter

GERARD, François-Pascal-Simon

• 1770-1837 French Painter

GIRODET de ROUSSY-TRIOSON, Anne-Louis

• 1767-1824 French Painter

INGRES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique

• 1780-1867 French Painter

THORVALDSEN, Bertel

• 1770-1844 Danish Sculptor

ALLEGRAIN, Christophe-Gabriel

• 1710-1795 Sculptor

BROC, Jean

• 1771-1850 Painter

NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

ALTDORFER, Albrecht

• ca.1480-1538 German Painter -Master Drawings

BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans

• ca.1484-1545 German Painter and Printmaker

BOSCH ( el Bosco ), Hieronymus

• ca.1450-1516 Dutch Painter

CRANACH THE ELDER, Lucas

• 1472-1553 German Painter

FIAMMINGO ( Pauwels Franck ), Paolo

• 1540-1596 Netherlandish Painter

MABUSE ( Jan Gossaert )

• ca.1478-1532 Flemish Painter

VAN DER GOES, Hugo

• ca.1440-1482 Flemish Painter

VAN EYCK, Jan

• ca.1395-1441 Flemish Painter

PHOTOREALISM:

KACERE, John

• 1920-1999 American Painter

POINTILISM:

SEURAT, Georges

• 1859-1891 French Painter

POST-IMPRESSIONISM:

CEZANNE, Paul

• 1839-1906 French Painter

GAUGUIN, Paul

• 1848-1903 French Painter

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de

• 1864-1901

VAN GOGH, Vincent

• 1853-1890 Dutch Painter

PRE-RAPHEALISM:

BURNE-JONES, Sir Edward Coley

• 1833-1898 English Painter

COLLIER, John

• 1850-1934 English Painter

HUGHES, Edward Robert

• 1851-1914 English Painter

WATERHOUSE, John William

• 1849-1917 English Painter

REALISM:

COURBET, Gustave

• 1819-1877 French Painter

PIRANDELLO, Fausto

• 1899-1975 Italian Painter

REALISM/IMPRESSIONISM

DEGAS, Edgar

• 1834-1917 French Painter and Sculptor

MANET, Edouard

• 1832-1883 French Painter

ROCOCO:

BATONI, Pompeo

• 1708-1787 Italian Painter

BOUCHER, François

• 1703-1770 French Painter

FRAGONARD, Jean Honoré

• 1732-1806 French Painter

RICCI, Sebastiano

• 1659-1734 Italian Painter

TIEPOLO, Giambattista

• 1696-1770 Italian Painter

WATTEAU, Jean Antoine

• 1684-1721 French Painter

ROMANTICISM:

BLAKE, William

• 1757-1827 English Painter –Illustrator

CHASSERIAU, Théodore

• 1819-1856 French Painter

DELACROIX, Eugene

• 1798-1863 French Painter

FUSELI, Henry

• 1741-1825 Swiss/English Painter

GEROME, Jean-Léon

• 1824-1904 French Painter

GOYA, Francisco de

• 1746-1828 Spanish Painter and Printmaker

HAYEZ, Francesco

• 1791-1882 Italian Painter

SOCIAL REALISM:

RIVERA, Diego

• 1886-1957 Mexican Painter – Muralist

SURREALISM:

CHAGALL, Marc

• 1887-1985 Russian/French Painter

DALI, Salvador

• 1904-1989 Spanish Painter and Sculptor

de CHIRICO, Giorgio

• 1888-1978 Greek/Italian Painter and Sculptor

DELVAUX, Paul

• 1897-1994 Belgian Painter

MAGRITTE, René

• 1898-1967 Belgian Painter

MAN RAY

• 1890-1976 American Photographer and Painter

MIRÓ, Joan

• 1893-1983 Spanish Painter and Sculptor

SYMBOLISM:

BERNARD, Emile

• 1868-1941 French Painter

CASORATI, Felice

• 1886-1963 Italian Painter

de CHAVANNES, Pierre Puvis

• 1824-1898 French Painter

DELVILLE, Jean

• 1867-1953 Belgian Painter

MOREAU, Gustave

• 1826-1898 French Painter

SYMBOLISM/ART NOUVEAU:

KLIMT, Gustav

• 1862-1918 Austrian Painter

SYMBOLISM/EXPRESSIONISM

MUNCH, Edvard

• 1863-1944 Norwegian Painter and Printmaker

VON STUCK, Franz

• 1863-1928 German Painter and Sculptor

VICTORIAN ROMANTICISM:

ETTY, William

• 1787-1849 English Painter

GODWARD, John William

• 1861-1922 English Painter

LEIGHTON, Lord Frederic

• 1830-1896 English Painter and Sculptor

PHOTOGRAPHY:

ALVAREZ BRAVO, Manuel

• 1902-2002 Photographer

AVEDON, Richard

• 1923-2004 Photographer

BAILEY, David

• born 1938- Photographer

BELLOC, Auguste

• 1800-1867 Photographer

KOPPITZ, Rudolf

• 1884-1936 Photographer

LEIBOVITZ, Annie

• born 1949- Photographer

MAPPLETHORPE, Robert

• 1946-1989 Photographer

NADAR (Gaspard Félix Tournachon ), Félix

• 1820-1910 Photographer

NEWTON, Helmut

• 1920-2004 Photographer

PALAZZOLO, Aldo

• born 1948- Photographer

PLATT LYNES, George

• 1907-1955 Photographer

RITTS, Herb

• 1952-2002 Photographer

SHINOYAMA, Kishin

• born 1940- Photographer

SIEFF, Jeanloup

• 1933-2000 Photographer

WESTON, Edward

• 1886-1958 Photographer

TABLEU:

BEROUD, Louis

• 1852-1930 Painter

BYZANTINE/CLASSICAL:

BONANNO PISANO

• active ca.1179-1186- Architect and Sculptor

NEO-HUMANIST/ NEO-FIGURATIVE ART:

BOTERO, Fernando

• born 1932- Painter and Sculptor

SCULPTURE/CONTEMPORARY:

RODIN, Auguste

• 1840-1917 Sculptor

CLAUDEL, Camille

• 1864-1943

ABSTRACT/FINE ART:

GOCKEL, Alfred

• born 1952- Painter

UNKNOWN:

BARTOLOZZI, Francesco

• 1727-1815 Engraver

HEINTZ, THE ELDER, Joseph

• 1564-1609 Painter

LYSIPPOS (Lysippus)

• ca. 370 B.C.-ca. 310 B.C. Sculptor

MANZÙ, Giacomo

• 1908-1991 Painter and Sculptor

MASTER OF FLORA

• active ca.1555-1570- Painter

MILHOMME, Dominique-Aimé-François

• Ca.1758-1823 Sculptor

MOORE, Henry

• 1898-1986 Abstract Sculptor

MYRON (Mirone)

• ca. 485 B.C.-ca. 425 B.C. Sculptor

PRADIER, James

• 1792-1852 Sculptor

PRAXITELES ( Prassitele )

• active ca.370-330 B.C.- Sculptor

RABOY (Emanuel Raboy), Mac

• 1914-1967 Illustrator

RIEFENSTAHL, Leni

• 1902-2003 Photographer and Filmmaker

RIXENS, Jean André

• 1846-1924 Painter

SCOPAS

• active ca.395-350 B.C.-Sculptor

TROMBADORI, Francesco

• 1886-1961 Painter

VARGAS, Alberto

• 1896-1982 Illustrator

WIERTZ, Antoine

• 1806-1865 Painter

WILIGELMO

• active ca.1099-1120- Sculptor

Agnolo Bronzino - allegory_of_happiness

Agnolo Bronzino - st._john_the_baptist

Agnolo Bronzino - venus,_cupide_and_the_time_[detail]

Albrecht Altdorfer- Lot_and_his_daughte

Alessandro Allori -allegory_of_human_life

Alessandro Allori- Susanna and The Elders, detail

Alessandro_Allori_-_Susanna_and_The_Elders_-_WGA00186

Alessandro_Allori_-_Venus_and_Cupid_-_WGA00189

Alexandre Cabanel - eve_after_the_fall

Alexandre Cabanel - nymphe_et_satyr

Alexandre Cabanel - the_birth_of_venus

Alexandre_Cabanel- Fallen_Angel

Amaury Duval- _La_Naissance_de_Venus

Andrew Wyeth - Overflow 1978

Agnolo Bronzino-- Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time [Allegory of the Triumph of Venus]

Annibale Carracci - Jupiter and Juno

Annibale Carracci - the_cyclops_polyphemus

Annibale Carracci -venus_and_adonis

Annibale Carracci -venus_with_a_satyr_and_cupids

Annibale Carracci- Venus and Cupid, c.1592

Annibale_Carracci_The_Triumph_of_Bacchus_and_Ariadne -_1597_-_Farnese_Gallery,_Rome

Antoine Wiertz - two-young-girls-or-the-beautiful-rosine, detail

Antoine Wiertz - two-young-girls-or-the-beautiful-rosine

Antonio Canova - apollo_crowning_himself

Antonio Canova - cupid_and_psyche

Antonio Canova - perseus_with_the_head_of_medusa

Ary_Scheffer_-_The_Ghosts_of_Paolo_and_Francesca_Appear_to_Dante_and_Virgil 1855

Auguste_Belloc_Reclining_nude ca.1855

Avedon - Naomi Campbell (Playboy), 1995

Balthus -Nude with Arms Raised, 1951

Balthus- claude_in_white_skirt

Balthus- Guitar Lesson

Balthus- Guitar Lesson

Balthus- La Chambre Turque, 1963-66

Balthus- Thérèse rêvant, 1938

Bartholomaeus Spranger - Venus and Vulcan 1610

Bartholomaeus Spranger - vulcan_and_maia 1695

Bartholomaeus Spranger -Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

Bartholomeus Spranger - venus_and_adonis 1597

Bartholomäus_Spranger_Herakles und Omphale 1585

Batoni - Thetis Takes Achilles from the Centaur Chiron

Batoni - Venus Presenting Aeneas with Armour Forged by Vulcan

Benvenuto Cellini - ganymedes-1545

Benvenuto Cellini - Perseus

Bernini - David 1

Bernini - David

Bernini - david_detail _1

Bernini - the_rape_of_proserpine

Bernini -Apollo and Daphne (detail)

Bernini -rape_of_proserpine_[detail _1]

Bernini -the_rape_of_proserpine_[detail _2]

Bernini -the_rape_of_proserpine_[detail _2]_1

Bernini- Apollo_and_Daphne

Bernini- Apollo_and_Daphne_[detail _3]

Bernini- Apollo_and_Daphne_[detail]

Bernini- Bacchanal, A Faun Teased by Children

Bernini- Martyrdom of St Lawrence

Bernini- Proserpina, detail, 1621-22

Bernini- The_Rape_of_Proserpina 1622

Bernini- the_rape_of_Proserpine_[detail _3]

Bernini-Gian_Lorenzo Rape_of_Proserpina_detail4

Bernini_David 2

Bernini- Truth_unveiled_by_Time_Gal_Borghese

Bertel Thorvaldsen - Venus_apple_

Bertel Thorvaldsen -Jason with the Golden Fleece

Bonanno Pisano Adamo ed Eva nel Paradiso terrestre

Bosch- details

Bosch- Terrestrial Paradise

Camille Claudel - Cacountala

Camille Claudel - The Age of Maturity. Destiny,  or Life.

Camille Claudel- The Imploring Woman 1

Camille Claudel- The Imploring Woman

Camille Claudel.Vertumnus and Pomona 1905

Camille Claudel The Age of Maturity. 1898. Bronze, 114 x 163 x 72 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) amor_victorious

CARAVAGGIO.St John the Baptist (Youth with Ram) 1602

Carlo Carrà - Summer

Carlo Carrà- Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Carlo Saraceni - Venus_mars_cupid 1600

Charles_Edouard_Boutibonne- sirens_1883

Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain- Vénus sortant du bain

Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain_Bather_Louvre_MR1747

Correggio- Jupiter_and_Io

CORREGGIO_Leda with the Swan

CORREGGIO_The Education of Cupid 1528

Correggio- Un Genio 1519

Correggio- Venus_with_mercury_and_cupid

CORREGGIO-The Sleep of Antiope

David Bailey- Jane Birkin

Diego Velázquez - mars,_god_of_war 1640

Diego Velázquez - Venus_at_her_mirror- The Rokeby Venus

Domenico Veneziano-  st_john_in_the_wilderness_(predella_2)1445

Edward_Weston_01

Edward Weston- Nude 1927

Egon Schiele- The Spiteful One, 1910

Egon Schiele- Wally Mit Roter Bluse, 1913

Emile Bernard -Bathers with Red Cow, 1887

Annibale Carracci -farnese_ceiling_fresco

Felice Casorati- Sieste 1923

Felipe Casorati- Concert 1924

Felix Vallotton- woman bathing 1895

Felix Vallotton-  Nude at the Stove 1900

Felix Vallotton-  Three Women and a Little Girl Playing in the Water_1907

Fernando Botero -The Letter

Fernando Botero- The Toilet

Fernando Botero_Odalisca

Francesco Bartolozzi Allegorical Scenes, Psyche

Francesco Trombadori - Fanciulla Nuda, 1933

Francesco_Bartolozzi_-_Bacchante_-_WGA01378

Francis Bacon- Figure in a Room

Francis Bacon- Study for the Human Body

Francois Boucher - Blond Odalisque (L'Odalisque Blonde)

Francois Boucher - The Toilet of Venus 1751

Francois Boucher - the_visit_of_Venus_to_Vulcan

Francois Boucher -Diana after the Hunt

Francois Boucher -The Rape of Europa

Francois Boucher - Venus_consoling_love-1751

Franz Von Stuck - Orpheus

Franz Von Stuck_Susanna Bathing 1904

Franz von_stuck_1891 Sensuality Eve and the Snake

Franz von_stuck_sensuality_1891

Franz_von_Stuck _the_Kiss_of_the_Sphinx1895

Franz_von_Stuck_-_Die_Sünde_1893

Franz_von_Stuck_-Wounded_Amazon,_1903

Franz_Von_Stuck_Salome_II 1906

Franz_Von_Stuck_Sphinx 1904

François Boucher -Leda_and_the_swan

François Clouet - The Bath of Diana 1550

François Clouet A Lady in Her Bath 1571

François_Boucher,_Venus_triumf_(1740)

François_Boucher_-_Brown_Odalisque_(L'Odalisque_Brune)_-_WGA2879

François_Boucher_-_Diana_Resting_after_her_Bath_-_WGA2885

Frederic Bazille The Reclining Nude

Frederic Bazille-Fisherman-with-a-Net-1868

Frédéric_Bazille~_La_Toilette,_1869-70,_Oil_on_canvas_Musee_Fabre,_Montpelier

Georges Seurat. The Models. 1888

Gian Lorenzo Bernini- Apollo and Daphne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, - Apollo_and_Daphne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, - Jupiter And Danae 1736.HD

Giovanni Bellini- allegory_of_vanitas

Giovanni Bellini- dead_Christ_supported_by_the_Madonna_and_st._john 1460

Giovanni Boldini - reclining_nude 1930

Giovanni Boldini  reclining-nude

Giovanni Boldini- Young Lady Entering Bath

Giovanni Boldini- Young Dark Lady

Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_Triumphzug der Flora 1743-1744

Giovanni_Bellini_-_Young_Woman_at_Her_Toilette_-_Google_Art_Project

Giovanni Bellini- four_allegories _perseverance_and_fortune-1490

Giovanni Bellini- four_allegories _prudence_and_falsehood-1490

Giovanni Bellini- prudence 1490

Guido_Cagnacci_ the_death_of_cleopatra

Gustave Courbet - Bathers-Or-Two-Nude-Women,-C.1858

Gustave Courbet - femme_nue_endormie

Gustave Courbet - Sleeping Nude 1858

Gustave Courbet - The Bathers 1853

Gustave Courbet - The Sleepers also known as Laziness and Lust

Gustave Courbet Nude Woman with Dog 1868

Gustave Courbet woman with parrot

Gustave Courbet The Bathers

Hans Baldung Grien - Adam detail

Hans Baldung Grien -Adam and Eve 1524

Hans Baldung Grien -Adam and Eve

Hans Baldung Grien -Eve, the Serpent, and Death

Hans Baldung Grien, Prudence 1529

Hans Baldung Grien Aristotle and Phyllis 1513

Hans von Aachen-  Allegory-Of-Peace,-Art-And-Abundance 1602

Hans Von Aachen-  Allegory-Of-Peace,-Art-And-Abundance 1602

Hans_Baldung_-_Music_-_WGA01193

Hans_Baldung_-_The_Seven_Ages_of_Woman_-_WGA01191

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Reclining Nude, 1897

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Study of a Nude. 1882

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -Bust of Nude Man

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec- nude-standing-before-a-mirror-1897

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-academic-study-nude 1883

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Crouching Woman with Red Hair

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Crouching Woman with Red Hair

Henry_Scott_Tuke,_(1858–1929),_Ruby,_gold_and_malachite,_1902

Hieronymus Bosch - Triptych of Haywain (left wing) Paradise

Hieronymus Bosch Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights (central panel) c. 1500

Hieronymus Bosch_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights__High_Resolution

Hieronymus_Bosch,_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_tryptich,_centre_panel_-_detail_4

Hieronymus_Bosch,_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_tryptich,_centre_panel_-_detail_5

Hieronymus_Bosch,_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_tryptich,_centre_panel_-_detail_10

Hieronymus_Bosch_-_Triptych_of_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_(detail)_15-_WGA2515

Hugo_van_der_Goes_-_The_Fall_of_Man_and_The_Lamentation_-_Google_Art_Project

Jacopo Sansovino - apollo_from_the_loggetta_of_the_campanile

Jacopo Sansovino - bacchus

Jacopo Sansovino - neptune1

Jacopo Sansovino - neptune

Jacopo Tintoretto - Mercury_and_the_Graces_1576_77

Jacopo Tintoretto The Murder of Abel 1553

Jacopo_Pontormo_-_Kicking_Player_1530-_WGA18128

Jacopo_Pontormo_-_The_Expulsion_from_Earthly_Paradise_-1535_WGA18106

Jacopo_Pontormo_Vertumnus and Pomona. 1520-1521

Jacopo_Robusti,_called_Tintoretto_-_Susanna_and_the_Elders_1555-56-_Google_Art_Project

Jacopo_Tintoretto_  Venus, Vulcan and Mars 1551

Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_Joseph_and_Potiphar's_Wife_1555-_WGA22655

Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_1575-_WGA22669

Jacopo_Tintoretto_Bacchus und Ariadne

Jacopo_Tintoretto_Danae 1580

Jacopo_Tintoretto_Liberation of Arsinoe 1556

Jacopo_Tintoretto_Women Playing Music

Jacopo_TintorettoThe Temptation of Adam 1551-1552

Jacques-Louis David - cupid_and_psyche

Jacques-Louis David - male-nude-known-as-hector-1778.HD

Jacques-Louis David - mars_disarmed_by_Venus_and_the_three_graces 1824

Jacques-Louis David - The Loves of Paris and Helen

Jacques-Louis David - the_courtship_of_Paris_and_Helen_[detail]

Jacques-Louis David - the_intervention_of_the_Sabine_women

Jacques-Louis David - venitienne_a_sa_toilette

Jan Van Eyck -The Ghent Altarpiece Adam(detail)

Jan Van Eyck -The Ghent Altarpiece Adam- Cain and Abel 1425-29

Jan Van Eyck -The Ghent Altarpiece Eve(detail)

Jan Van Eyck -The Ghent Altarpiece Eve-The Killing of Abel

Jean Antoine Watteau - Jupiter and Antiope

Jean Antoine Watteau - Le_jugement_de_Paris 1718-21

Jean Antoine_Watteau_-_Diana_at_her_Bath_1715-16_WGA25446

Jean Broc- the_death_of_hyacinth 1801

Jeanloup Sieff 1

Jeanloup Sieff 2

Jeanloup Sieff - Reclining Nude 1969

John Collier - in_the_Venusberg_Tannhauser

John Collier - Lady Godiva 1898

John Collier - Lilith

John Collier - the_water_nymph

John William Waterhouse - Naiad, 1893

John_William_Waterhouse_-_Hylas_and_the_Nymphs_Manchester_Art_Gallery_1896

Kishin Shinoyama - 1

Kishin Shinoyama - Nude 1

Kishin Shinoyama - Nude

Kishin Shinoyama - Twin

Kishin Shinoyama -Two Female Nudes on Rock

Kishin Shinoyama- Nude  2

Louis Beroud - The Joys Of The Flooding

Louis Beroud- Symphony in Red and Gold (detail)

Louis_beroud_peintre_au_Louvre_-_l'inondation_1910

Luca Signorelli - resurrection_of_the_flesh 1499-1502

Luca Signorelli - The End of the World, detail of the Elect, 1499-1502

Lucas Cranach the Elder- Adam_and_Eve 1528

Lucas Cranach the Elder- charity

Lucas Cranach the Elder- Lucretia

Lucas Cranach the Elder- reclining_river_nymph_at_the_fountain

Lucas Cranach the Elder- the_golden_age

Lucas Cranach the Elder- the_judgment_of_paris 1528 (oil on limewood)

aerten de Vos the Elder, Flemish (1532–1603) The Satyr presents gifts to Venus to incite sexual intercourse, Cupid repudiates, 1583. Engraving 6 x 7 18

Man Ray - Noire et blanche, 1926

Manuel Alvarez Bravo The Good Reputation, Sleeping

Mario Sironi - nudo con albero 1930

Mario Sironi -solitude-1926

MICHELANGELO Buonarroti_Dusk_a detail of the tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici.1524-31

Paolo_Veronese_ Mars-and-Venus-united-by-love 1570.HD

Paul Baudry -Diana in Repose

                                   Paul Baudry -Toilette of Venus

Paul Baudry -Venus Playing with Cupid

Paul Baudry- The Wrestler Meissonier 1848

Paul Baudry_La_fortune_et_le_jeune_enfant

Paul Baudry_the_wave_and_the_pearl

Pierre Bonnard siesta-1900 HD

Pierre Bonnard- Model in Backlight, 1907

Pierre Bonnard- model-in-backlight 1908

Pierre Bonnard- Nude 1920

Pierre Bonnard- Nude in the Mirror1931

Pierre Bonnard- The Mirror ofthe Toilet, 1930

Pierre Bonnard- the-fireplace-1917

Pierre Bonnard- Torso of Nude Woman Before a Mirror, detail, 1916

Pompeo Batoni - Hercules at the Crossroads

Pompeo BATONI,Achilles and the Centaur Chiron 1746

Pompeo Batoni- Susana and the Elders 1751

Pontormo - Venus and Cupid 1532-34

Pontormo--Hermaphrodite Figure 1538-43

Praxiteles, Roman_Venus_Copy_of_Praxiteles_Front

Praxiteles_Hermes_di_Prassitele,_at_Olimpia,_front_2-Archaeological museum of ancient Olympia, Greece. From the German excavations of the Heraion at Olympia, 1877

RAFFAELLO Sanzio Cupid and the Three Graces 1517-18

RAFFAELLO Sanzio Raphael_The Voyage of Galatea 1511

RAFFAELLO Sanzio Raphael_The Voyage of Galatea-1_ 1511

RAFFAELLO Sanzio The School of Athens 1509

RAFFAELLO Sanzio The Three Graces 1504-05

RAFFAELLO Sanzio_Mercury Brings Psyche up to Olympus 1517-18

RAFFAELLO Sanzio_Raphael-Apollo and Marsyas (ceiling panel)1509-11

RAFFAELLO Sanzio_Raphael-Portrait of a Young Woman (La Fornarina)1518-19

RAFFAELLO Sanzio_Venus, Ceres and Juno 1517

Raphael -The Voyage of Galatea (detail)

Raphael-  Adam and Eve (ceiling panel) 1509-11

Raphael_adam-and-eve-from-the-stanza-della-segnatura-detail-1511.HD

Raphael- The Feast of God 1517-18 (detail)

Raphael-The School of Athens (detail)1509

Raphael_(Raffaello_Santi)_-_A_Kneeling_Nude_Woman_with_her_Left_Arm_Raised_-1518_Google_Art_Project

Raphael_adam-and-eve-from-the-stanza-della-segnatura-detail-1511.HD

Raphael_galatea-detail-of-mermen-and-dolphins-1506.HD

REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn_Susanna and the Elders 1647

Rembrandt van Rijn - Danae 1636

Rembrandt van Rijn - Danae detail 1636

Rembrandt van Rijn - Susana in the bath detail 1647

Rembrandt van Rijn -Bathsheba at Her Bath 1654

Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_Andromeda 1630

Richard Avedon- Ling Tang

Richard Avedon- Naomi Campbell 1

Richard Avedon- Naomi Campbell 1

RITTS, HERB _veil_1984

Rosso Fiorentino - Ignudo 1534-36

Rosso Fiorentino-  moses_defending_the_daughters_of_jethro 1523-34

Sandro Boticelli- Allegory of Spring Primavera 1482

Sandro Boticelli- the_birth_of_venus_[detail] 1

Sandro Boticelli- the_birth_of_venus_[detail] 2

Sandro Boticelli- Venus_and_ Mars 1483

Sandro Boticelli-The Birth of Venus 1485

Sandro BOTTICELLI Calumny of Apelles (detail)

Sandro BOTTICELLI Calumny of Apelles

Scopas- Amazon attacking a male warrior

Scopas_(Attributed)_-_Aphrodite_and_Eros.detail, c.350 B.C

Sebastiano Ricci-  Bathsheba at the Bath 1720

Sebastiano_Ricci_-_Susanna_and_the_Elders_-1713_WGA19426

Sebastiano_Ricci_-_The_Punishment_of_Cupid_-1706-07_WGA19424

Sebastiano_Ricci_-_Venus_and_Satyr_-1716-20_Google_Art_Project

Sir Anthony van Dyck-  cupid_and_psyche 1639-40

Sir Anthony van Dyck-  Jupiter_and_Antiope.first half of 17th century

Sir Anthony van Dyck-  Rinaldo_and_Armida 1629

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones- pan_and_psyche1874.HD

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones- the_Perseus_series _the_doom_fulfilled

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones- the_tree_of_forgiveness

Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, exhausted-maenides-after-the-dance-1874 HD

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema- A Sculptor's Model

Sir Lawrence_Alma-Tadema-Tepidarium_(1836-1912)

Sir LawrenceTadema- in_the_tepidarium

Sir Lawrence Tadema - a_favorite_custom1909

Sir LawrenceTadema- a_sculptor's_model_-_detail

Sir LawrenceTadema- in_the_tepidarium_[detail]

Hans Baldung Grien New Year’s Wish with Three Witches

Titian-Danae receiving the Golden Rain 1553

Titian_Venus with a Mirror_(furs) 1555

TIZIANO Vecellio (Titian)- Bacchanal  of the Andrians 1523-24

TIZIANO Vecellio- Bacchus_and_Ariadne 1520-22

TIZIANO Vecellio- Danae_and_the_shower_of_gold 1544-45

TIZIANO Vecellio- sacred_and_profane_love 1514

TIZIANO Vecellio- sacred_and_profane_love_[detail _1] 1514

TIZIANO Vecellio-_venus-of-urbino-1538 HalfHD

TIZIANO Vecellio-_venus-of-urbino-1538 HalfHD

TIZIANO Vecellio-venus-and-cupid-with-an-organist-1549.HalfHD

TIZIANO Vecellio_The Three Ages of Man 1512

TIZIANO Vecellio_Venus_and_Adonis_1554

Triptych of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, Hieronymus

Tuke,_Henry_Scott_(1858–1929),_'August_Blue,'_1893

Tuke,_Henry_Scott_(1858–1929),_'The_Bathers'

Vargas, Alberto - pin-up art 1

Vargas, Alberto - pin-up art 2

Vargas, Alberto - pin-up art 3

Vincent Van Gogh - Nude Woman Reclining 1887

Vincent Van Gogh - Nude Woman Reclining, Seen from the Back-1887.HalfHD

Wiligelmo - Adam and Eve Labouring 1100

Wiligelmo - Creation of Adam and Eve 1100

William Blake- Beatrice Addressing Dante

William Blake- isaac_newton-1795

William Blake- The Ancient of Days 1793

William Blake- The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve , c.1825

William Blake- the_lovers_whirlwind,_Francesca_da_Rimini_and_Paolo_Malatesta

William Blake-The Good and Evil Angels

William-Adolphe Bouguereau -Young Girl Defending herself against Cupid

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Les_oreades 1902

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The Birth of Venus 1879

William-Adolphe Bouguereau -L'Amour_mouille or Cupidon

William-Adolphe Bouguereau woman-with-shell-1885

William-Adolphe Bouguereau-  Le_ravissement_de_psyche

William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Day_(1881)

William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Nymphs_and_Satyr_(1873)

William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Return_of_Spring_(1886)

William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_The_Birth_of_Venus_(1879)Musée d'Orsay

William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_The_Birth_of_Venus_(1879) current

William_Blake_-_Albion_Rose_-_from_A_Large_Book_of_Designs_1793-6

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