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Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase (originally in French Femme nue montant l'escalier) is a drawing done with pencil and charcoal on card made by Joan Miró in 1937. It is part of the permanent collection of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona.
Just as Western art has considered—preferably since the Renaissance—the female nude as a more normal and pleasant subject than the male, in Greece certain religious and moral aspects prohibited female nudity—as can be seen in the famous trial of Phryne, Praxiteles' model. Socially, in Greece, women were relegated to housework, and in ...
The women are positioned in a small interior space which contains a window and can be entered or exited from two sides. The small devil in the left hand recess, who is intended to represent evil, as mammalian anatomy including hind legs, and holds a vaguely described object in his claw that appears to consist of sticks and a piece of string, [10] perhaps comprising a contemporary device for ...
The intersection of their identities, as Nelson asserts, creates a "doubly fetishized black female body". Women of color are not represented to the degree that white women are in nude art from the Renaissance to the 1990s, and when they are represented it is in a different way than white women.
Female Figure (Giambologna) Female Half-Length Nude with Hat; Female Nude (Renoir, 1876) Femme nue couchée; The Fiancée of Belus; Figure drawing; Figure painting; Figure study; The Fisherman and the Syren; Five Bathing Women at a Lake; Flora and Zephyr; Flora Caressed by Zephyr; La Fornarina; The Four Continents; Four Seasons (Reni) The Four ...
In the sky numerous less detailed angels are in flight all towards the same direction Lucifer faces. Lucifer glares out angrily from behind his arm, tears visibly in his eyes. In Rome, Cabanel meditated at length on the theme of the fallen angel. He would paint The Evening Angel (1848), a year later in gouache.
The Aphrodite of Knidos (or Cnidus) was an Ancient Greek sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite created by Praxiteles of Athens around the 4th century BC. It was one of the first life-sized representations of the nude female form in Greek history, displaying an alternative idea to male heroic nudity.
Some regard Francisco Goya's La maja desnuda of around 1800, as "the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art", [7] but paintings of nude females were not unknown, even in Spain. The painting was hung in a private room, along with other nudes, including the much earlier Rokeby Venus by Velasquez .