Genre
The Nude
The nude is the body offered as the central subject, the figure studied for form rather than dressed for a role. From the antique statues that taught the Renaissance to the bathers of the modern studio, it has been the proving ground of drawing and the most contested subject in Western art.
Key artists
Works
Venus and Cupid
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
The Woman in the Waves
The Source
Woman with a Parrot
The Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children
Vertumnus and Pomona
Venus and Minerva
Morning Toilet
The Ages and Death
Return from the Hunt by Piero di Cosimo
Cupid Kissing Venus (Venus Kissed by Amor)
Bacchus and Ariadne
The Birth of Cupid
Opening of the Fifth Seal
God Holds Adam and Eve Responsible
Reclining Nude
The Three Graces
Fatata te Miti (By the Sea)
Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate
The Origin of the Milky Way
Beauty Revealed
The Judgment of Paris
Virgin and Child
Untitled
The Pearl and the Wave
Landscape with Jupiter and Io
The Virgin and Child
Danaë
Venus and Adonis (Rubens, 1614)
Venus, Mars and Cupid
Susanna and the Elders
Judgment of Paris
Two Tahitian Women
The Golden Age
Tarquin and Lucretia
Neptune and Amphitrite
Moses Striking the Rock
Woman before a Mirror
The Birth of Venus
Old Age in Search of Youth
Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror)
Untitled
Aegina Visited by Jupiter
Odalisque
The Fall of Man
Study of a Nude
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John
Halt of Caravans at the Wells of Saba (Beersheba) in the Desert South of Hebron
Ariadne
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Susanna and the Elders
The Last Judgment
Florinda
Diana the Huntress
Leda and the Swan
Falling Leaves, Allegory of Autumn
The Return of Neptune
The Feast of Acheloüs
Venus and Adonis
Cider
Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Mary Magdalene in a Grotto
Cupid (Eros) Carves the Bow
Reclining Girl
Death of Euridice
The Wounded Philoctetes
The Three O'Clock Sitting
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld
Untitled
Diana
The Death of Cleopatra
Tobias and the Angel
Samoa
The Serbian Concubine (Un Envoi de Serbie)
Francesca Ghirardi Lechi
Angelica and Medoro
Consolation of Ariadne
Cupid Making His Arch
Helena Fourment in a Fur Robe
Allegory of Peace and Abundance
Una escena de la Inquisición
Arcadia
Odalisque in Grisaille
Leda and the Swan, after Boucher
Angelica and Medoro
Seated Nude
Lady of the Lake
A Male Model Standing before a Stove
Allegory
夕顔棚下納涼図|Enjoying the Evening Cool under a Gourd Trellis
Venus and Cupid
Charity
Bacchante in a Landscape
Seated Model
Hercules, Deianira, and Nessus
The Suicide of Lucretia
The Expulsion from Paradise
Vienna Diptych
Benois Madonna
America
Three Tahitian Women
Landscape with Figures
After the Bath
A Female Allegorical Figure
The Spring (La Source)
Untitled
The Toilette of Venus
Nude with Flowering Branch
Metaphysics
Springtime
Woman with a Towel
The Child's Bath
Diana
A Female Allegorical Figure
Athlete and Dancer
A Measure of Dreams
The Palace of Aurora
Young Woman Reading
Eva cogiendo la manzana
The Cup of Love
Geometry
A Sea Nymph
The Bath, Jávea
Expulsion from earthly Paradise.
Nude with Apple
Adán antes de comer el fruto
Allegorical depiction of Mars (Friedrich Wilhelm, elector of Brandenburg?) receiving the weapons of Venus (Louisa Henrietta, countess of Nassau?) and Vulcan
Venus Anadyomene
Vertreibung aus dem Paradies
Boys Bathing at Skagen. Summer Evening
Leda and the swan
Nude Old Man in the Sun
The toilette of Venus
The Calumny of Apelles
Male Nude
The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)
Roundel with Nude Woman Supporting a Heraldic Shield
Pandora
The Pleiades
Reclining Nude
Virtue and Abundance
Untitled
Swimming Party
Pandora
Adam and Eve
The Three Graces
Daphnis
Leda and the Swan
Diana and Callisto
Resting Venus
Mercury
Susanna and the Elders
The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes
Adam and Eve
Danae
Seated Nude Model, Facing Left
Venus trying to prevent Adonis from going hunting
Reclining Figure
Composition (Study for "Nude Model in the Studio")
The Three Graces
Seated Odalisque
Woman Drying Her Arm
Echo
Bacchus and Ariadne
A Bather (Echo)
Tamaris
Odalisque, Harmony in Red
Standing Nude model, Facing Left
Venus
Bacchus
Music
Amor Vincit Omnia
Throat-cutting
Battle of the Nudes
Portrait of a disabled man
Nymphs Bathing
The Lorelei
The Legend of the King's Sons
Scene from La Fontaine's Fable 'The Mare of Peasant Pierre'
The Cicada
Artemis
Reclining Female Nude
The Death of Adonis
Moema
Saint Sebastian
Leda and the Swan
Female Nude
Expulsion of Adam and Eve
Leda and the Swan
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Frenzy of Exultations
Le baptême du Christ
Seated Female Nude
Bañistas
The Birth of Venus
Sigurd Slembe
Study for "William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River"
Nude Study
Frequently asked questions
What is The Nude?
The nude is the body offered as the central subject, the figure studied for form rather than dressed for a role.
How many The Nude works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 250 public-domain The Nude works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key The Nude artists?
Key The Nude artists in the collection include Titian, Thomas Eakins and Jean Baptiste Camille Corot.