Reclining Nude
Lidia Guibert Ferrara
Introduction by Frances Borzello
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| ‘An engaging compendium on the key motif of Western secular art’ | | – The Independent |
| ‘A rich visual delight’ | | – The Irish Times |
The female nude in art was one of the many fruitful innovations of the fifteenth-century Renaissance in Western Europe. In ancient sculpture, the nude was almost exclusively male and usually upright. The first female reclining nude in European painting can be found in the work of Giorgione, and the genre has flourished up to the present day.
Featuring more than one hundred full-page illustrations of masterpieces, Reclining Nude is a feast for the senses. From Titian’s alluring Venus of Urbino to Manet’s brazen Olympia, this book provides a fascinating tour of our ever-changing visions of beauty and repose.
There is in many of these paintings a striking serenity, combined with an air of erotic mystery, sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant, amusing or dramatic, heated or cool, modest or flaunting. . .
About the Authors
Lidia Guibert Ferrara is a graphic designer teaching at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan. Frances Borzello’s books include Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits and A World of Our Own: Women as Artists, both published by Thames & Hudson.
Also of interest:
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Auguste Rodin: Erotic Drawings
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500237972 | | ISBN-13 978-0500237977 | | | | 31.0 x 22.0 cm | | Hardback | | 128pp | | 131 illustrations, 131 in colour | | First published 2002 | | | | £9.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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