Sunday, June 13, 2010

Nudes in Arts - Some classics

Continued from the post.."Nudes in Arts".. click here..
Here's some links to some classics..
If you like sculptures and paintings, you would have already seen them.. But still, check them out again..

For images .. Click on the link..
# The Discobolus - By Myron/5th century BC..
# Aphrodite of Cnidus - BY Praxiteles/ 4th Century B.C...
# The Pancrastinae - Unknown [Greek]/ 3rd century BC]..
# Venus de Milo - Found at Milo /130-120 BC ..
# Venus de Medici - By Cleomenes / 1st century BC..
# David - By Donatello /1440 ..
# Birth of Venus - By Sandro Botticelli /1485..
# David - By Michelangelo /1504..
# Vitruvian Man - By Leonardo da Vinci /1487..
# Apollo and Daphne - By Gian Lorenzo Bernini /1622-25..
# Perseus with the Head of Medusa - By Antonio Canova/ 1804-06...
# La maja - By Francisco Goya /1800 ...
# The Lunch on the Grass - By Edouard Manet /1862-62..
# Olympia - By Edouard Manet /1863 ...
# The Kiss - By Auguste Rodin /1889..

Trivia..
- "Aphrodite of Cnidus" by ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles of Athens [4th century BC] is widely accepted as the first life-size representation of the nude female form..
- "David" by Donatello [1440], is widely accepted as the first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity..

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