The female nude.

This post is for Elizabeth.

The Reclining Venus.

Artemisia Gentileschi-Venus and Cupid 1625

Titian- Venus of Urbino, 1538

Diego Velasquez Venus before Her Mirror. 1647

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque. 1814

Edouard Manet, Olympia 1863
The Female Form in Action

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne 1622

Kiki Smith, Daphne 1993

Johannes Vermeer, The Milk Maid, 1658.

Edgar Degas, Woman in the Bath, 1886,

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Phillip Pearlstein

Lucien Freud




Other Approaches

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

Auguste Rodin

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending A Staircase (No.2). 1912

Willem de Kooning 

Pablo Picasso, La Vie 1903

Pablo Picasso

Egon Schiele, Wieblicher Akt 1910

Egon Schiele, Kniendes Mädchen, auf beide Ellenbogen gestützt. 1917

Kathe Kollwitz

Lucien Freud

Jenny Saville, Branded. 1992

Antonio Lopez-Garcia 1971

Chuck Close

Gerhard Richter

Kiki Smith

Cindy Sherman