The male nude in art is not as often talked about as its female counterpart. However, apart from being easy on the eye, the male body in art is full of history and has undergone a host of fascinating transformations over the past years. Dagli Orti. Athlete, Roman copy after an original by Polykleitos fl. Our first stop on this quick tour is Ancient Greece. Spanning several centuries, the art of the Ancient Greeks is hard to summarise, but it certainly shows an increasing tendency towards lifelikeness. The Greeks imagined their gods to look like perfect humans, and so the images of these deities have an idealising quality that carried through to other subjects too. Adam and Eve separated by the tree of Science. Ms 41 f. In the middle ages , the male nude flips degrees: from the proud, in-your-face nakedness of Antiquity, nudity becomes awkward.
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Anuradha Sroha 18 July min Read. Nudity in art first became significant in ancient Greece. The athletic competitions at religious festivals celebrated the male body as an embodiment of all that was best in humanity. While the female nude was a symbol of procreation and fertility, male nudity was associated with triumph, glory, and moral excellence. Let us look at some of the best male bodies in art history! Annibale Carracci — was an Italian painter, famous in Bologna and Rome. He was one of the promoters of the Baroque style of paintings. In Bacchus , Carracci creates a well-known figure from the classical mythology- Bacchus or Dionysus, the God of wine and merry-making.
