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If there is one genre of art that seems to have played a greater role than any other, it is the nude. For at least 30,000 years, humans have represented the naked form in a
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N/A/100 votesThe Renaissance
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2010
In this Episode of The Nude in Art we look at the role that the nude played in the Renaissance. Tim Marlow travels to England, France and Italy as part of a lively visual journey illustrating how the Christian idea of nudity associated with sin was replaced with ideas of nudity being associated with beauty and sensuality. Some of the art that Tim visits include Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's David and Giotto's The Last Judgement.
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N/A/100 votesThe Enlightenment
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2010
In The Enlightenement, Tim Marlow examines works of art such as Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson, Ingre's Turkish Bath and Rodin's The Age of Bronze. All illustrate the many different uses the nake form was now having. For some, it represented virtue, for others, vice. It was used to shock, to coerce, to titillate, to impress, and to instruct.
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N/A/100 votesThe Modern
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/1/2010
In The Modern period of art we deal with Manet's Olympia, Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, and Bacon's Triptych are among those artworks used to illustrate how the 20th century changed everything. Emotional truth overcame physical realism. With photography and film, nothing seemed beyond the artists' interest or capabilities.
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