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In ancient times, artists weren’t allowed to paint nudity in art, unless they were depicting mythical figures or supernatural beings. Until the 19th century, it became a rule that the female nudes in painting should have a prototype. The naked human body provided the key link between a set of ideas, beliefs, and values. The artist could, therefore, use the nude form as a pretext to aspire to feminine beauty or reinforce dominant ideologies of modern society. Cf. Richard Brereton, Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators & Creatives, Laurence King, repr. ed. 2012. Jean Fouquet’s Virgin and Child surrounded by Angels, 1454-56 Madonna and Child with Angels by Jean Fouquet, 1454 – 1456, via Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid Combining my passion for photography and admiration of the fine male form, I attempt to capture, in the most artistic way, all that the body has to offer -- the beautiful and the mundane, the graceful and the dirty, the spiritual and the profane." All these naked self-portraits were painted within the first decade of the 20th Century – and rather set the tone for the rest of it. Such paintings were possible, writes Borzello in The Naked Nude, because these artists had "no-one to answer to but themselves… These naked portraits follow no tradition. They are new. They make the private public. And they left a legacy."

The emergence of the female nude as a genre begins with the Renaissance . An icon of the Italian Renaissance and one of the most renowned and universally loved paintings – Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli . During that period, depicting a woman in full nudity, except for Eve, was very innovative. The figure of the naked Venus in this work, who is born into the real world as a woman, is not chosen in terms of symbolism to emphasize the humility of the body, but to state the externalization of female eroticism, which combines idealism and sexuality. Love, lust, pleasure, desire, beauty, anatomical study, self-expression, egotism… The impulses behind sending nudes are many. Creating nudes and sharing them seems to be part of human nature." So begins Karla Linn Merrifield, in the first contribution to a new anthology entitled Sending Nudes. A collection of poems, stories and memoir on the subject, it takes a long hard look at the contemporary – and seemingly timeless – habit of sharing images of the naked human form. Gurney, James. "James Gurney Interview". Archived from the original on 7 November 2012 . Retrieved 28 November 2012. Sergei is a photographer, among many other things, based in Michigan. His artistic photography of male nudes has been exhibited in art shows in Seattle, Detroit, Dallas, Rochester, N.Y., and Manchester, Conn., and has been published in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Kincaid, James R. (31 January 2000). "Is this child pornography?". Archived from the original on 2012-04-14 . Retrieved 2012-04-25. a b Kielletyt kuvat: vanhaa eroottista taidetta Japanista / Förbjudna bilder: gammal erotisk konst från Japan / Forbidden Images – Erotic art from Japan's Edo Period. Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseon julkaisuja. Vol.75. Helsinki, Finland: Helsinki City Art Museum. 2002. pp.23–28. ISBN 951-8965-53-6. Deborah, Parker, Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Sandro Botticelli’s Venus and Female Nudity in Art The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, 1485, via Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The Fabrica emphasized the priority of dissection and what has come to be called the "anatomical" view of the body, seeing human internal functioning as an essentially corporeal structure filled with organs arranged in three-dimensional space. In this work, Vesalius also becomes the first person to describe mechanical ventilation. [26] It is largely this achievement that has resulted in Vesalius being incorporated into the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists college arms and crest. What is generally called "ethnographic" nudity has appeared both in serious research works on ethnography and anthropology, as well as in commercial documentaries and in the National Geographic magazine in the United States. In some cases, media outlets may show nudity that occurs in a "natural" or spontaneous setting in news programs or documentaries, while blurring out or censoring the nudity in a dramatic work. [30] The ethnographic focus provided an exceptional framework for photographers to depict peoples whose nudity was, or still is, acceptable within the mores, or within certain specific settings, of their traditional culture. [31] [32] [33]Licht, Fred (1979). Goya, the origins of the modern temper in art. New York: Universe Books. p.83. ISBN 0-87663-294-0.