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The Venus of Urbino is an oil painting completed by Titian in 1538 for Guidobaldo della Rovere and now held by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It shows a nude woman reclining in a Venetian interior, meeting the viewer's gaze while attendants search through a chest in the background. The small dog, r...
Sleeping Venus is a reclining nude begun by Giorgione around 1510 and generally understood to have been completed in part by Titian after Giorgione's death. The sleeping figure is arranged parallel to the contours of an open landscape, integrating the human body with the natural setting. The paintin...
The Large Bathers is an oil painting by Paul Cézanne, developed during the final years of his life and left unfinished at his death in 1906. It arranges groups of nude women beneath trees whose angled trunks form a triangular frame around the figures and distant landscape. Cézanne subordinated anato...
The Naked Maja is an oil painting by Francisco Goya, generally dated to around 1797 to 1800, depicting a nude woman reclining on cushions and looking directly at the viewer. Its frank representation of the body, including visible pubic hair, departed from conventions that often justified the female...
The Origin of the World is an 1866 oil painting by Gustave Courbet presenting a closely cropped view of a nude woman's torso and genitalia. Commissioned for the collection of Ottoman diplomat and art collector Khalil-Bey, it applies Courbet's detailed Realist technique to a subject treated with unus...
Standing Female Nude is Carol Ann Duffy's 1985 debut collection, notable for its dramatic monologues and its Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
