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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Art History’s Nude



 


Art History’s Nude



First of 3 series


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






Original post date Sept. 1, 2010




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2 comments:

  1. Glad you like this,
    thank you...

    The images are beautiful -
    not pornographic images
    designed to titillate,
    not just representations of
    female and male nakedness
    but all the naked longings,
    aspirations and ideals
    that most often we carry
    around inside our skins.
    They are much more
    meditations on the
    nature of physical beauty...

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