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Representing the human body has been one of the major themes throughout art history since prehistoric times. In fact, among the paintings that have marked history, many are nude paintings of bodies, more specifically naked woman. We can take as an example Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, Courbet’s The Origin of the World or Modigliani’s Reclining Nude. The nude genre can be assimilated to a large number of pictorial subjects, the most famous including Matisse and Ingres’ “odalisques”, Renoir’s and Cézanne’s “bathers” or the “Olympia” of Manet and Magritte.

The body is a fantastic source of inspiration for an artist because it is simultaneously the embodiment of beauty, desire, reverie and the forbidden. And it is often the nude paintings that cause scandal in art. Over the centuries and across movements, nude paintings have created an aesthetic of the body and beauty. Beyond the subject represented, the painters create imagery of the human body, often very personal and sometimes even against the artistic rules of their time. Let Artsper take you on the journey of a brief history of the women nude painting through art…


1. Middle Ages and Pre-Renaissance: The Sacred Nude
In the Middle Ages, the Church used the nude to show the vulnerability of man, aware of the importance of the image in teaching religion to the illiterate. The Church commissioned artists to paint frescoes, sculptures and paintings to decorate their churches and religious manuscripts. Contemporarily, art was mainly for religious purposes, with the nude being considered sinful. It referred to the mortal and imperfect condition of man. Nude paintings were thus represented for iconographic reasons. For instance, naked characters are found on the tympanums of churches alluding to the Underworld. The biblical figures Adam and Eve are synonymous with nudity and sin. They are often represented in their simplest form, with snakes or leaves covering their genitals. These naked bodies, although visually very close to profane nudes, are in fact in service of the sacred.

Masaccio

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Masaccio, Adam und Eva aus dem Paradies verbannt, 1424-1425
In 1425, the Italian painter Masaccio created a fresco representing Adam and Eve driven out of Eden, for the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. While Adam lowers his eyes and hides his face, Eve hides her nakedness, her eyes spinning and her mouth open as if she were screaming. Above them, we see an angel dressed in red who points to the exit. The two characters are bent over, ashamed and afraid to leave Eden.

Masolino
Opposite this image in the same chapel is the fresco of the painter Masolino. Known as The Original Sin, the fresco was created in 1424. Adam and Eve look at each other with an air of serenity, standing tall and majestic. A light emanates from the figures, the dark background highlighting the bodies and their ancient stature.


1. Middle Ages and Pre-Renaissance: The Sacred Nude

In the Middle Ages, the Church used the nude to show the vulnerability of man, aware of the importance of the image in teaching religion to the illiterate. The Church commissioned artists to paint frescoes, sculptures and paintings to decorate their churches and religious manuscripts. Contemporarily, art was mainly for religious purposes, with the nude being considered sinful. It referred to the mortal and imperfect condition of man. Nude paintings were thus represented for iconographic reasons. For instance, naked characters are found on the tympanums of churches alluding to the Underworld. The biblical figures Adam and Eve are synonymous with nudity and sin. They are often represented in their simplest form, with snakes or leaves covering their genitals. These naked bodies, although visually very close to profane nudes, are in fact in service of the sacred

In 1425, the Italian painter Masaccio created a fresco representing Adam and Eve driven out of Eden, for the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. While Adam lowers his eyes and hides his face, Eve hides her nakedness, her eyes spinning and her mouth open as if she were screaming. Above them, we see an angel dressed in red who points to the exit. The two characters are bent over, ashamed and afraid to leave Eden.

Opposite this image in the same chapel is the fresco of the painter Masolino. Known as The Original Sin, the fresco was created in 1424. Adam and Eve look at each other with an air of serenity, standing tall and majestic. A light emanates from the figures, the dark background highlighting the bodies and their ancient stature.