The nude in art: the modern
In the last episode we deal with The Modern period of art. Manet's Olympia, Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'Avignon and Bacon's Triptych are among those artworks used to illustrate how the 20th century changed everything. Emotional truth overcame physic...
The nude in art: the Renaissance
In the second episode of The Nude in Art, we look at the role that the nude played in the Renaissance. Tim Marlow travels to England, France and Italy as part of a lively visual journey illustrating how the Christian idea of nudity associated with s...
The nude in art: the classical
Tim Marlow discusses classical nudes from Paleolithic nudes, Egyptian nudes, Roman nudes, Greek nudes to the Roman Gods. He also examines art such as the Venus of Willendorf and the Venus de Milo. The viewer will discover through images such as the...
The nude in art: the Enlightenment
In this program, Tim Marlow examines works of art such as Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson, Ingres's Turkish Bath, and Rodin's The Age of Bronze. All illustrate the many different uses the naked form was now having. For some, it represented virtue, fo...