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On the other hand, the Christ of the Last Judgment (1536-1541) has the solemnity of an Apollo understood as sol justitiae, however with a rotundity-patent in his nearly square torso-already far faraway from the classical canons. Then again, the tragic side of the nude-that of Hellenistic pathos-was cultivated by Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino, typically with religious topics, which could better categorical Mannerist emotionalism, such as Rosso's Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro (1523), whose flat, angular our bodies are the antithesis of classicism. Even his religious scenes have a festive, joyful, worldly, generally considerably irreverent character. Clearly, many crave affiliation with Reynolds even when he’s sending them up. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany within the summer time of 2006, the corporate undertook a marketing campaign, in association with Heat Tv, through which they visited Munich, Leipzig, Hamburg and Cologne with their "love truck", a brothel on wheels with six prostitutes providing prospects free intercourse in trade for publication rights of the recorded video. It is value noting that the bodily typology of Giorgione's nudes, of generous proportions and extensive waist, would dominate the Venetian female nude for a very long time, and that it handed, through Dürer, to Germany and the Netherlands, enduring in the Baroque in the work of artists corresponding to Rubens.

Throughout the 16th century, the acceptance of the nude as an inventive theme, which moved from Italy to the remainder of Europe, generated a great demand for these works, particularly in Germany and the Netherlands, by a bourgeois public that avidly consumed this kind of labor. In works comparable to Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (or Jupiter and Antiope, 1524-1525), The Education of Cupid (1528), Danae (1530), Leda and the Swan (1531-1532) and Jupiter and Io (1531-1532), he reveals figures in capricious, dynamic positions that stand out luminously from the remainder of the painting, which is darker, thus focusing the primary point of curiosity for the artist. In different works he continued together with his prototype of lady of exuberant and fleshy kinds, as in Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-1523), Penitent Magdalene (1531-1533), Venus and Musician (1547), Venus with an Organist, Cupid and a Dog (1550), Danae receiving the golden rain (1553), Venus and Adonis (1553), The Rape of Europa (1559-1562), Diana and Actaeon (1559), Diana and Callisto (1559), the 2 Bacchanals painted for Alfonso I d'Este (1518-1526), or his Venus Anadyomene (1520) from the Ellesmere collection, whose unabashed sensuality is the place to begin of the nude as a theme in itself, which would be recovered in Impressionism.

This may be seen in Giovanni Bellini's Naked Young Woman in Front of a Mirror (1515), though the main initiator of this model was Giorgione, who was the primary to structure the feminine nude within a general decorative scheme, as in his frescoes of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (1507-1508, now disappeared), in his Pastoral Concert (1510) or in his Sleeping Venus (1507-1510), whose reclining posture has been copied ad nauseam. An early imitator of Giorgione was Titian, whose Venus of Urbino (1538) and Pardo Venus (or Jupiter and Antiope, 1534-1540) reproduce the identical posture because the Sleeping Venus, buying, nonetheless, greater fame. Later, his deepening in anatomy gave his figures a resounding realism, where the scientific interest might be glimpsed, however at the identical time they denote a certain heroic perspective, of moral and human dignity, which gave them a serene very important intensity. The celestial Venus is the one who is bare, following the best of the classical nude, given the purity of her moral advantage, whereas the worldly one seems clothed, because of the shame of her immorality.

His different nude works embody: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (1544), Adam and Eve (1550-1552), Venus, Vulcan and Mars (1555), The Liberation of Arsínoe (1555-1556), Susanna and the Elders (1560-1565), The Origin of the Milky Way (1575-1582), Judith and Holofernes (1579), etc. His daughter, Marietta Robusti, followed in his footsteps, whereas serving as a model for her father on numerous events. Later, his concept of a rotund and vibrant anatomy, however charged with emotional depth, was embodied in his Adam of the Sistine Chapel (1508-1512), reminiscent of the Dionysus of the Parthenon pediment, but with a significant charge far removed from the harmonious Phidian sculpture. The Creation of Adam (1508-1512), by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Vatican. The Creation of Eve (1509-1510) presents a rotund, vigorous feminine determine, with very marked contours. Similarly, his figures for the Medici tombs (1524) are harking back to Greek works: the male ones (The Day and The Twilight) to the Belvedere Torso, and the feminine ones (The Dawn and The Night) to the Vatican's Ariadne. The David (1501-1504) in Florence still retains the Apollonian air of a balanced classicism, but interpreted in a private way, where the torso may appear like that of a Greek statue, however the disproportion of head and limbs denotes tension, and his defiant expression departs from the classical ethos.

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