Female nude
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| The [[female nude]] is an enduring [[Theme (arts)|theme]] in the [[history of art]]. [[Venus]], the Roman [[goddess]] of [[love]] has acquired in [[visual art]] the status of synonym for any [[female]] [[nude]]. | The [[female nude]] is an enduring [[Theme (arts)|theme]] in the [[history of art]]. [[Venus]], the Roman [[goddess]] of [[love]] has acquired in [[visual art]] the status of synonym for any [[female]] [[nude]]. | ||
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The female nude is an enduring theme in the history of art. Venus, the Roman goddess of love has acquired in visual art the status of synonym for any female nude.
The nude has become an enduring genre of representational art, especially painting, sculpture and photography. It depicts people without clothes, usually with stylistic and staging conventions that distinguish the artistic elements (such as innocence, or similar theatrical/artistic elements) of being nude with the more provocative state of being naked. A nude figure is one, such as a goddess or a man in ancient Greece, for whom the lack of clothing is its usual condition, so that there is no sexual suggestiveness presumed. A naked figure is one, such as a contemporary prostitute or a businessman, who usually wears clothing, such that their lack of it in this scene implies sexual activity or suggestiveness. The latter were rare in European art from the Medieval period until the latter half of the 1800s; in the interim, a work featuring an unclothed woman would routinely identify her as "Venus" or another Greco-Roman goddess, to justify her nudity. There can be debate with regard to whether a figure in art is either nude or naked for example in some works of Francis Bacon.
Venus vs. Nini
The Venus and Nini are two terms of art to denote the female nude. They are illustrated here by the Venus (Giorgione) vs. Venus of Urbino (1538) by Titian.
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