Female Nudes 1.0

Nudes in art has a strong tradition in European art. Different cultures have different attitudes toward female nudity. Some saw the female body was associated with the divinity of procreation. To the ancient Greek the standing male nude (Kouros) were associated the male body with athletic proves and moral excellence. The ancient Greek also preferred to see their standing female (Kore) clothed. Later the Cndian Aphrodite was created using idealized proportions based on mathematical ratios. A self-protective pose added to her modesty. This ideal version of the Greek female nude was later adopted by Hellenistic Greco=Roman art but mostly discarded during Pax Romana, from about 50 CE. In Renaissance, Botticelli painted his life size Birth of Venus, leading a revival of the tradition. Ingres demystified female nudes to ordinary women. I came from a culture that nudes were rarely seen. It was shocking and embarrassing at first. Now I don’t notice them any more.

1. Female Nudes
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First created 23 Aug 2020. Version 1.0 -15 Sep 2020. Daperro. London.

2. Greeknudes
AncientGreekwaspreoccupiedbynudesinArtparticularlyman

3. Early Greek femalenudes
Greekfemalenudesappearedlater.

4. InIndia,theKhajurahoGroupofMonumentsbuiltbetween950and1050areknown
fortheireroticsculptures.
India femalenudes

5. Japannudes
IntheFarEast,Japaneseareoneofthefeworientaltraditionsthatdepictsnudes.

6. Greek Hellenistic femalenudes

7. Greek Hellenistic femalenudes

8. Greek Hellenistic femalenudes

9. Revival ofnudes in European
Botticellipaintedthefirstlifesizefemalenudeemergingfromthesea,intheBirthof
VenuethatledtotherevivaloffemalenudesinEuropeanart

10. Botticelli

11. Raphael

12. Raphael
Raphael'sGirlfriend.

13. Bellini

14. Correggio
Correggiopaintedafamoussetofpaintingsdepictingthe
LovesofJupiterasinOvid’sMetamorphoses.

15. Bronzino
Cupid&VenuswithFollyshowers
themwithrosepetals.Thebald
Timeatthetop,looksonand
holdsacloth.

16. Bronzino
ThisisararelyseenpaintingofBronzinoon
theDescentofChrist.Bronzinofilledthe
paintingwithalotofnudes.

17. Titian
Titianpaintedmanynudes.

18. Thisisanimportantpaintinginthehistoryoffemalenude.Itdepictedthewomanlooked
directlyattheviewer.Somecriticsdescribedthisaspornographic.

19. Titian

20. Rubens

21. Rubens

22. Artemisia
ArtemisiaGentileschi(1593-c1656)wasof
thesuccessfulItalianBaroquepainter.She
wasthefirstwomanmemberofthe
AccademiadiArtedelDisegnoinFlorence,
andhadaninternationalclientele.Her
fatherwasalsoacourtpainterOrazio
GentileschitotheEnglishRoyalfamily.
ArtemisiaSelfportrait.

23. Rembrandt

24. Rembrandt

25. Cagnacci
Cagnaccioftendepicted
sensuousnakedwomenfrom
thethighupwards.Thisone
ofsuchexample.

26. Cagnacci

27. Domenichino

28. Velazquez

29. Boucher
Boucherwaswellknownforitsnakedwomen.

30. Goya

31. Goya
Clothedversionofthepainting.

32. Canova
“AntonioCanovawasanItlianNeoclassicalsculptorfamousforthemarblesculptures.Oftenregarded
asthegreatestoftheNeoclassicalartists,hissculpturewasinspiredbytheBaroqueandtheclassical
revival.”Wikipedia.

33. Canova

34. Canova

35. Canova
CupidandPsyche1793

36. Hayez
Aboveishismorewell-knownpainting.
FrancescoHayezwasconsideredoneofthe
leadingartistsofItalianRomanticismof19C.

37. David
Bytheendofthe18thcentury,
Francewasinanupheaval.It
wasthetimeoftheFrench
Revolution. Oneofthe
preeminentpaintingofthis
periodwasJacques-LouisDavid.
Hewasaleadingartistofthe
Neoclassicalstyle.
Duringthistime,wesawtherise
ofFrenchart,asFrancebecame
thedominantmilitaryand
politicalpowerinthecontinental
Europe.

38. Herworkreflectingtheinfluenceof
Jacques-LouisDavid.
Benoist

39. Ingres
Ingresnudeshavebeguntofreethemselves
fromtheneedofancientmythologyandallegory
tojustifytheportrayofthefemalebodyinallits
beauty.

40. Ingres

41. Courbet

42. Manet

43. Manet

44. Renoir

45. Bouguereau
Anotherfrequentpainteroffemalenudes..

46. Degas

47. Seurat

48. Seurat

49. Toulouse-Lautrec

50. FemalenudesonAncientGreekpottery.
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51. Rome’s Art Gallery