the figure in history

The Painted Figure

Giotto

Original Sin

SANDRO BOTTICELLI, Birth of Venus, ca. 1484–1486. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5’ 9” x 9’ 2”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Sandro Boticelli

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Jan van Eyck

Hans Baldung Grien

Rosso Fiorentino

BRONZINO, Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time, ca. 1546.

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TITIAN, Venus of Urbino, 1538. Oil on canvas, 3’ 11” x 5’ 5”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

TITIAN, Venus of Urbino, 1538. 10

Caravaggio

Caravaggio

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Caravaggio

Caravaggio

Dirck van Baburen

Hendrick ter Brugghen

Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

Velazquez

Boucher

Giambattista Tiepolo

JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Death of Marat, 1793.

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Jacques Louis David

Jacques Louis David

Anne Louis Girodet

Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres

Eugene Delacroix, THE DEATH OF SARDANAPALUS, 1827.

THÉODORE GÉRICAULT, Raft of the Medusa, 1818–1819.

THÉODORE GÉRICAULT, Raft of the Medusa, 1818–1819.

Henry Fuseli, THE SHEPHERDS DREAM, 1793.

Lord Frederic Leighton

Eugene-Emmanuel Amuary-Duval

Lord Frederic Leighton

Eugene-Emmanuel Amuary-Duval

Jean Leon Gerome

Luis Ricardo Falero

Luis Ricardo Falero

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Alphonse Mucha

ADOLPHE-WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU, Nymphs and Satyr, 1873.

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William Bouguereau, THE NYPMHAEUM, 1878.

William Bouguereau

ÉDOUARD MANET, Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863.

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ÉDOUARD MANET, Olympia, 1863.

ÉDOUARD MANET, Olympia, 1863.

Gustave Moreau, THE DAUGHTERS OF TESPIO, 1882/83.

Jean Delville

Klimt

Paul Gaugin

Paul Gaugin

Egon Schiele

Edvard Munch, PUBERTY, 1895.

Amedeo Modigliani

Adolf Zeigler

Balthus

Salvador Dali, THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST 1958.

Ernst Fuchs

Frank Frazetta

Boris Vallejo

Alberto Vargas

Andrew Wyeth