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Nude Paintings For Sale
"Three Muses" - Vertical expressionist female nude in yellow ochre and black.
By E.C. Bell
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Loft Oberon - Nude Figure with Elongated Twisted Limbs Floating in Space, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Oberon is historically known as a king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature. Here he is pictured aloft, floating in space, with elongated arms and legs that twist i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Reflection 2
By Robin Okun
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A live model was the inspiration for this painting. Feeling moved by her pose, I started with a basic line drawing using charcoal. I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Supplicant" (2017), Surrealist Female Nude Portrait, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Supplicant" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude woman with horns resting her head gently on a nude woman's knees, the fleshy tones of her face...
Category
2010s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Precarious, Nude dark colors female nude figure on top of tilting pillows
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early work by the artist depicting a Nude posing atop a totem. ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking ...
Category
1980s American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Vero
Located in MADRID, ES
Impresionist woman figure
Category
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,260
"Flora #2" - Geometric Surrealist Painting - Nude - Arcimboldo
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Flora #2" is one in a series of surreal paintings of the female figure featuring intricate patterning and hues of bright yellow, lime green, pink, blue and purple.
Guy Robinson is i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Homage to Rousseau - Nude Painting - Contemporary Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
A contemporary twist on Rousseau's painting " The Dream" with bright ,whimsical flowers and foliage is just pure fun and fancy. The artist is a great fan!
Homage to Rousseau - Nude...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tilted Figure No. 13, 2020
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tilted Figure 13, 2020' is professionally framed in light maple wood, The artwork is 12 x 9 inches, with the outer frame dimension being 13 x 10 inches. Artist signed verso. From An...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Female Nude In An Interior
Located in PARIS, FR
Maurice TASTEMAIN
Caen 1878 - Paris 1944
Female nude in an interior
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
32.5 x 41 cm panel
45 x 53 cm frame
good condition
A student of Ménégoz at the Éc...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Queen of Hearts female nude large red heart big valentine love erotic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on canvas on heavy stretcher framing recommended but not necessary
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Yellow Back: Mixed media painting on paper by Angela Lyle
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Yellow Back - a beautiful study using Angela's idiosyncratic use of colour to wonderful effect.
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"St. Icaremus in the Lumber Yard, " Acrylic on Canvas by Randall Berndt
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"St. Icaremus in the Lumber Yard" is an original acrylic painting on canvas by Randall Berndt. This painting depicts a male figure with wings and a bird head in a lumber yard. There are three pillars of carved heads staring at him.
Artwork Size: 44" x 52 1/4"
Artist Bio:
Randall Berndt grew up on a farm near Markesan, Wisconsin, and holds an M.F.A. degree in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has been exhibited in many museum and gallery shows, both juried and invitational. These include, in recent years, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio (where he received the Juror's Choice Award), the Sioux City...
Category
1980s Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lotus, mixed media painting on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominantly spent designing sets and costumes for rock bands. This connection with the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Flora #14" - Geometric Surrealist Painting - Nude - Arcimboldo
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Flora #14" is one in a series of surreal paintings of the female figure featuring intricate patterning and hues of blue, black, green, white and yellow.
Guy Robinson is inspired by ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Young man with Isa - Painting, Oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
Hemed’s paintings inhabit a space between realism and intimacy. Depicting contemplative male figures in moments of vulnerability, his work is marked by an emotional depth that resist...
Category
2010s Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Finding Your Footing
By Easton Miller
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Gouache and acrylic on yupo. Artwork is 12 x 9 in., framed it is 15 x 12 in.
Category
2010s Fauvist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache
$768 Sale Price
20% Off
Break Free 2
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,800 Sale Price
40% Off
Break Free 1
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,800 Sale Price
40% Off
Falling Down
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,100 Sale Price
40% Off
"Flora #8" - Geometric Surrealist Painting - Nude - Arcimboldo
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Floral #7" is one in a series of surreal paintings of the female figure featuring intricate patterning and hues of bright yellow, lime green, pale pink, supple pink light blue, and ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
The Reawakening of Venus
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A common interpretation of Botticelli's masterpiece, "Birth of Venus" is that the goddess reappears to herald a new age of love and enlightenment after the prolonged unrest of the Mi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$17,600 Sale Price
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Landslide, abstract female figure
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
abstracted painting of female nude, beautiful brush work
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude, Figural, Watercolor and Gouache, Catalogued Rodin's Studio
By Odilon Roche
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Odilon Roche was born in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire in 1868. He was a professional wine taster who traveled around Europe attending wine fairs. In 1902 he opened a shop selling artists'...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Shakti Dysnomia - Hindu Goddess in Quite Difficult Yoga Pose on Flame Background
Located in Chicago, IL
Shakti, one of the most important goddesses in the Hindu pantheon, is really a divine cosmic energy that represents feminine energy and the dynamic forces that move through the unive...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Study for Jo III, modern fabric painting with nudes, by Anne Valérie Dupond
Located in Dallas, TX
ANNE-VALÉRIE DUPOND
(b. 1976, France)
Anne-Valérie Dupond, born in 1976, studied at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2000. Sinc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Trimming, Charcoal
Burka Bikini Girl
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Burka Bikini Girl, 2019
Oil and graphite on canvas
15.75 x 11.75 inches (40 x 30 cm)
Signed, titled and dated on verso
Lee Wells (b.1971) is a conceptua...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Help From Friends, colorful blues, purples, spiritual figure abstract watercolor
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
This piece is very much about the energy of the body and breath. We are just rediscovering the power of the breath to increase energy and general well being.
This work is so important as our society gets more disembodied and broken, we need to come home to our bodies and realize the sacredness of ourselves and every being on the planet. Janet has both shown and taught with Alex Grey...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Lick (COLLABORATION WITH JACK BALAS)
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
This painting is a collaboration with artist Jack Balas. Jack is Wes Hempel's partner.
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict o...
Category
2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lord of the Center - Original Artwork of Highly Detailed Symbolic, Surreal Scene
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting, like each of the paintings in the Purple Dawn series, is based on an earlier work that was lost or destroyed in the course of time. Feeling that I wanted to finish wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Maro on Chrome and Yellow Vinyl Modern Side Chair - Original Oil Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
This classically painted figure study demonstrates the artists understanding of the human figure. A study for a series of larger paintings based on motion capture studios. Here the model is placed in a contrived position on a midcentury modern chair surrounded by props used in the motion capture process.
Andrew S. Conklin
Maro on Chrome & Yellow Vinyl Modern Side Chair, 2016
oil on panel
18h x 13w in
45.72h x 33.02w cm
Motion Capture Paintings, Chicago
My recent painting series describes the reality of motion capture environments by showing the interplay between female athletes and male technicians. These paintings are meant to explore conventions of female representation in Western figurative art and to contrast this past practice with the contemporary imagery of that subject via computer-based image technology.
This project was instigated by a number of things: first, by my abiding interest in depicting the human form in paint, as I find its versatility in a design, its invitation to empathy, and its difficulty, to be something worth attempting to depict with success. In addition, my curiosity regarding the new ways to depict the form using electronic technology seem to challenge to the traditional methods I rely upon, and I wanted to comment on the similarities and differences between the studios of the painters and the technicians.
In this way, I aim to continue my investigation into what I see as the contrasting quality of human nature, and symbolically represent opposites such as mind and body, analog and digital, realism and idealism, terrestrial and the transcendent.
Andrew S. Conklin is a figurative painter. He holds an MFA from the Academy of Art University, and studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City with Harvey Dinnerstein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Balance
By Kathryn Pitt
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on board
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$225 Sale Price
25% Off
In Good Hands, swirling colorful spiritual abstracted goddess figure
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance
and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Unexpected Blessing II
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good in...
Category
2010s American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Woman with Rose” Lily Harmon, Female American Modernism Mid-century
By Lily Harmon
Located in New York, NY
Lily Harmon (1912 - 1998)
Woman with Rose
Ink and gouache on board
23 x 19 inches
Lily Harmon, was an artist who worked in portraiture, assemblage and book illustration, and whose ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
Abstract ll
Located in East Hampton, NY
Abstract work
COMES FRAMED simple wood, app 1.5" deep.
Cubism Style
Post Modern
About the Artist:
Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980)
In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk fr...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Something New
By Yaron Dotan
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Paint on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paint
$2,500
February Figure, female nude, greys earth tones
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil and oil stick over ink on paper. Neutral limited color, expressionist female nude with active brush strokes.
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink, Oil
Torso
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Robert Moskowitz is a contemporary American painter who was influenced by, among other movements, Abstract Expressionism, and gained recognition in the 1960s onward for his paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paint
Red Cloak Oil On Canvas
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Red Cloak Two Semi Nude Women Painting
Artist signed.
Peter Nixon was born in Lytham St. Annes Lancashire in 1956, England. Peter Nixon's direction in a ca...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Quiet Moment, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By John Barney
Located in Yardley, PA
This is part of my new series of raw and emotive paintings that keep it simple but will make you feel something. They are painted on heavy duty fine art paper and look fantastic when matted and framed. This particular painting shows two nude people...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Modern American Gothic
Located in East Hampton, NY
A Modern Take on American Gothic by Grant Wood
Cubism Style
Post Modern
About the Artist:
Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980)
In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk from New Yo...
Category
1970s Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
"Morning Glory Gown" - Vertical expressionist female semi-nude with gown.
By E.C. Bell
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jazz Lover
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary artist Kim Frohsin’s work is held by the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Office of the Governor, State Capital, Sacramento, and th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Nereid - Nude Female Figure with Elongated Limbs in Outstretched Yoga Pose
Located in Chicago, IL
Nereid is a sea nymph, a female spirit of sea waters. She symbolizes everything that is beautiful and kind about the sea. Her melodious voice sing as she dances and twists on a sea ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Contemporary figurative textured oil painting female nude colorful signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nude Awakening" is an original oil painting on jute canvas by Ernesto Gutierrez. It features a nude woman sitting on a green seat. The artist signed th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Jute, Oil
Raphael DELORME (1885-1962) , "Venus with Doves"
Located in Paris, FR
Raphael Delorme (1885-1962) was one of the leading painter from the Art Deco Bordeaux school of painting with Dupas in France in the 1920's. This painting is typical of his best wor...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Red Ophelia, colorful abstract female nude
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An expressionist figurative oil painting integrating abstracted form and color. The title suggests the classic Shakespearean character from Hamlet and the symbolism of beauty, madnes...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sweet Energy, colorful red swirling abstract mystical mixed media
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance
and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Rhapsody"
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This painting is a fantasy, but it is about real things. Real dreams, real experiences, real opportunities. We are, all of us, free to strip off our clothes and explore a kelp forest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$18,400 Sale Price
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Oil on Canvas Pointillism Painting of Naked Women
Located in Palm Beach, FL
An oil on canvas pointillism painting of a naked women art class on Cape Cod. Signed by George Durant and dated '52, this is not a subject matter...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
The river - Julien Calot, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
Discover the new works on canvas by the French emerging and talented artist Julien Calot in his personal ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Helen - Mid 20th Century Pencil Figurative Nude Lady by Arthur Royce Bradbury
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on the 17th September 1892 in Preston, Lancashire. He specialised in painting portraits, landscapes and marines on oil, watercolour and pastel and was an accomplished etcher and...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Belu Dolphin" nude watercolor painting of a man stretching on white background
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timele...
Category
2010s Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Queen Kong- Florence, Italy, 2021
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera Art Academy. He lives in Florence, pursuing painting, bas-reliefs in terracotta and in bronze, and bronze sculpture.
Piussi presents an ideal, almost childlike world which can be found below everyday events, a step outside the flow of time, yet still a part of contemporary life, with a nod to Alex Katz and David Hockney. The drama, or lack thereof, is played out in simplified, almost abstract spaces. Pure in intent, Piussi’s oeuvre are inspired by the Early Renaissance.
Snapshot images of a world reduced to its essence, the apparently comic-book style has echoes of Giotto, Paolo Uccello, of medieval illuminations. Rather than mimicking the appearance of nature, Piussi reaches for its essence, without distracting details. Women stand on the shore of quintessentially peaceful seas, self-contained, at ease, unwitting replicas of classical goddesses - a proud diver echoes Neptune holding a trident.
“Queen Kong...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ecstatic Fatigue, abstracted female figure, nude
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on board. Abstracted, expressionist, figurative. Cool and warm greys with heightened color.
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
#5 (FIGURE SERIES #3), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Nymira Gray
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is 10" x 20" (1.5" deep), professional grade acrylics on gallery wrapped, professional grade cotton canvas. I work in heavy body acrylics, the fast drying nature of wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Easy, godlike figure, water, reflection, mystical images, blues, greens
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance
and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
Category
2010s Expressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Gathering in antique Ruins, a monogrammed painting by Jan van Haensbergen
By Jan Van Haensbergen
Located in PARIS, FR
Jan van Haensbergen was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age and a pupil of Cornelius van Poelenburgh (Utrecht 1594 - 1667). The painting we are presenting is inspired by Poelenburgh’s landscapes from his Italian sojourn. The dreamlike atmosphere of this Gathering in antique ruins appealed to us. Against a backdrop of antique ruins, three draped characters (perhaps bathers) are sitting in a circle, greeting a fourth character walking towards them.
Their tranquility contrasts with the bustle of the other characters in the background. They constitute a vivid illustration of otium, this leisure time that allows us to realize our full potential. With this Arcadian landscape, Jan van Haensbergen invites us in turn to leave the hustle and bustle of everyday life behind, to take a break, to enjoy the present moment chatting with close friends…
1. Jan van Haensbergen, a landscape and portrait painter of the Dutch Golden Age
Jan van Haensbergen was born in 1642 in Gorinchem, a town in southern Holland to the east of Rotterdam. He was a pupil of Cornelius van Poelenburgh, and began by painting landscapes inspired by those of his master, in an Italianate style. Between 1668 and 1669, he was registered at the Guild of Saint Luke in Utrecht.
In 1669, he moved to The Hague, where he joined the Confrérie Pictura, an artist society founded in 1656. His portraits, which became his main activity as a painter after settling in The Hague, were strongly influenced by Caspar Netscher (Prague or Heidelberg 1639 - The Hague 1684), whom he met in The Hague and whose son Constantijn became his son-in-law by marrying his daughter Magdalena.
In addition to his work as an artist, Van Haensbergen was also an art dealer, probably helped by his appointment as Dean of the Confrérie Pictura, where he also teached.
2. Description of the artwork and related paintings
This painting seems to us to be a kind of allegory of otium, that quiet bliss promised by Epicurus. It might even evoke an Epicurean proverb: "It is better to lie on the naked ground and be at ease, than to have a golden carriage and a rich table and be worried" .
Three draped young people - two men and a woman in the background - are seated in a circle, greeting a fourth figure walking towards them, hair disheveled and body draped in a towel as if drying off after a bath, indicating the need for prior purification to fully enjoy this rest. Their nonchalance contrasts with the bustle of the various characters in the background.
The composition is punctuated by successive diagonals, and opens onto a landscape on the right, with a succession of mountainous planes. This painting is typical of the Italianate works produced by Van Haensbergen in the 1660s under the influence of Cornelis van Poelenburgh...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Nude Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
"Salvador Dalí"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
In this painting, I've swirled a traditional landscape into a floating, serpentine form, blending the realistic with the surreal. Each building, painted meticulously in oil, seems to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shop Antique and Vintage Nude Paintings
Today, antique and vintage nude paintings are popular works of art to consider when decorating your home.
The nude as an artist’s subject gained prominence in ancient Greece, wherein male nudes were rendered equivalent to power and victory owing to the Greeks’ celebration of men in athletic events as well as in the worship of the gods who populate Greek mythology. Nude sculptures in Greece positioned men as warriors — strong, moral and fearless. The naked female figures featured in prehistoric art and the art of ancient civilizations, on the other hand, were symbols of fertility and procreation.
Italian painters of the 1400s looked to the magnificent nude sculptures of Greek and Roman art for inspiration. By the end of the century, drawing of undressed models was part of the common practice for these artists. When Christianity had spread through Europe, however, Christians condemned Renaissance nude paintings — most of which are considered famous nude paintings today — because they were erotic, exploring, in some cases, same-sex relationships as well as women’s sexual power. Censorship was the order of the day, except for religious-themed works, such as 1526’s iconic Adam and Eve, an oil painting made by German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of more than 50 works made in his workshop based on the biblical story. Tuscan painter Daniele da Volterra was famously hired to paint fig leaves over the most exposed figures of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. While freedom of expression for artists has expanded significantly since then, prudish censorship persists when it comes to Renaissance nudity.
On 1stDibs, find a wide variety of authentic antique and vintage nude paintings, from works focused on the reliably reclining figures of Impressionist-style art to oil paintings created by contemporary artists who often work to reject the idealized human forms and unrealistic depictions of female nudes that preceded them. Additionally, find a primer on 1stDibs on how to arrange wall art as well as tips on creating salon-style gallery walls for presenting the wonderfully provocative nude paintings you’ve decided to bring into your home.
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