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One of the key aspects of the Renaissance was humanism , which emphasized the dignity, worth, and potential of human beings. Humanism sought to reconcile the teachings of Christianity with the study of human nature and the world. Renaissance humanists revived the study of Classical languages, literature, and history, believing that by studying the works of ancient thinkers, they could gain wisdom and insight into their own time. Although the sculpture was thought to be particularly provocative, the image itself is not obviously sensual. Fields, Jill (2012). "Frontiers in Feminist Art History". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 33 (2): 1–21. doi: 10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0001. S2CID 142427676.

For much of history, nude men represented martyrs and warriors, emphasizing an active role rather than the passive one assigned to women in art. Alice Neel and Lucian Freud painted the modern male nude in the classic reclining pose, with the genitals prominently displayed. Sylvia Sleigh painted versions of classic works with the genders reversed. Grimes, William (July 22, 2011). "Lucian Freud, Figurative Painter Who Redefined Portraiture, Is Dead at 88". The New York Times. Men and women did not receive equal opportunities in artistic training from at least from the Renaissance until the middle of the nineteenth century. Women artists were not allowed access to nude models and could not participate in this part of the arts education. [62] [63] Jullien, François (2007). The Impossible Nude: Chinese Art and Western Aesthetics. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-41532-1.

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In 1916, she painted Nude Arranging her Hair, which depicts a woman carrying out a mundane task in a frank, un-sexualised and non-erotic way. [44] Jacobs, Frederika H. (1994). "Woman's Capacity to Create: The Unusual Case of Sofonisba Anguissola". Renaissance Quarterly. 47 (1): 74–101. doi: 10.2307/2863112. JSTOR 2863112. S2CID 162701161. Bernheimer, Charles (Summer 1989). "Manet's Olympia: The Figuration of Scandal". Poetics Today. 10 (2): 255–277. doi: 10.2307/1773024. JSTOR 1773024. Sorabella, Jean. “ Monasticism in Western Medieval Europe.” (originally published October 2001, last revised March 2013) Pan Copulating with a Goat (c. 1st Century BCE) by Unknown; Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From what we saw, I believe they are all nude. Vigeland Park holds the title of the world’s largest sculpture park made by a single artist. Jacobs, Ted Seth (1986). Drawing with an Open Mind. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 0-8230-1464-9. Lucy Liu has created a collection, entitled 'SHUNGA,' a Japanese term meaning erotic art. [76] Liu's subject matter involves close up images of lesbian women, entwined within each other and bed sheets. [76]Female nudes have long been informed by the male gaze, and men's desires of the nudity of women. [73] Feminist criticism has targeted female nudes, informed by the male gaze, for nearly a century. [73] However, there are some artists who have turned this concept on its head, and have, as a result, distilled the criticisms embodied within the male gaze nude depictions of women. Artists have instilled the female gaze in the nudes they create. Rather than women being the object of men's desires, some artists have challenged traditional narratives of women, depicting them contrastingly as being non-sexualised. [74] Saint Jerome, 1460–70, Donatello, polychrome wood. Pinacoteca Comunale, Faenza. Image: Scala / Art Resource, NY The contemporary writer Giorgio Vasari, whose 1550 publication Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is credited as being the first work of art-historical criticism, gushed over David : “It certainly bears the palm [i.e., is unsurpassed] among all modern and ancient works, whether Greek or Roman . . . and the colossal statues of Montecavallo [i.e., of Roman antiquity] do not compare with it in proportion and beauty.” The Warren Cup, bought by the British Museum in 1999, is one of the finest pieces of Roman silver work in existence. It is also one of the most pornographic. Usually dated to the 1st century after the birth of Christ, the silver drinking vessel shows four figures in a heavily decorated room surrounded by musical instruments. These signs of luxury are not what catch the eye, however.