Nude
In art, a nude is a picture or sculpture of a nude person. The nude is a popular genre because it allows the artist to depict the beauty of the human form unobstructed by clothing or drapery.
Pictures of nudes can be drawings, etchings, paintings, or rendered art.
Traditionally popular subjects for nudes are historic themes, scenes from Roman or Greek mythology, Biblical scenes, or allegories. Since the 19th century, nudes will also often show "normal people" in nature or at home.
The Japanese term for almost nude, often used in Japanese art and fetishes that involve almost-full nudity (e.g. wearing only an apron, or only socks), is Hadaka (裸). The Japanese term for completely nude is Zenra (全裸).
Gallery[edit]
Nude seen from behind with legs apart. Study by Luca Signorelli (c. 1441/50-1523).
Male nude, rear view. Study by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
Three Graces. Study by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520).
Other version of the same.
Young man holding a small child. Study by Jacopo Pontormo (1495-1556).
Copy after Bandinelli's Cleopatra, by Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572).
Nymphs in the painting "Marie de' Medici Arriving at Marseilles" by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).
Seated female nude by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823).
Sitzender Akt (seated nude), sepia drawing by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1820).
La source by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1856).
Le coucher de Sappho by Charles Gleyre (1867).
Mary Magdalene In The Cave by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1876).
Fanciulla entra nella vasca by Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931).
Il sonno by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877).
Cupid and Psyche by Jacques-Louis David (1817).
Phryne before the Areopagus by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1861).
The Bath by John Reinhard Weguelin (1849-1927).
The Awakening of Psyche by Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924).
The Swimming hole by Thomas Eakins (1885).
Brenn and His Share of the Spoils by Paul Jamin (1893).
Illustration by Martin van Maële from the novel Camille et Moi.
Female nudity is a common element in many Japanese erogames.
See also[edit]
- Nudity
- Nude spanking
- Nudity in art on Wikipedia
- Nude on Wikipedia
- Hadaka on Wikipedia
- Zenra on Wikipedia
Links[edit]
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