Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - The Nude Pt. 3 - Desire

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Dear Patrons,

Thank you for your support! This week we are excited to share with you the third and final art history lecture in a three–part series on artistic depictions of nudes in drawings, paintings, and sculptures, The Nude Pt. 3 – Desire. This lecture by Tom Richards, Assistant Director of  The Florence Academy of Art, focuses on they psychology of artwork depicting the human form without clothing, and touches on how the unclothed body has been culturally viewed in western art. Delving into the differences between how people have viewed the nude, be it antiquity, the Gothic era, the Renaissance, or the end of the 19th century, Tom explains how cultural and historical context helps to better understand these artworks. Guiding us through works by Ancient Greek and Roman sculptors, Rembrandt, Titian, Bernini, and many others, we study various proportional cannons and additionally touch on the complex and riveting relationship between the artist, subject, and viewer.

We hope you thoroughly enjoy this lecture!

To view the other two lectures in the series please visit:

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - The Nude Pt. 1 – Pathos 

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - The Nude Pt. 2 – Energy 

Tom Richards is Assistant Director of the Florence Academy of Art, Principal Instructor at the academy, and a working artist based in the UK and Italy. To view his work please visit:

Instagram: @tominflorence 

Website: www.tawrichards.com 

FAA Gallery: www.florenceacademyofart.com/alumni–gallery/tom–richards

If you would like to further research the works from the lecture we have selected details on artists and artworks below, in the order presented in the lecture:

• Weston Cast Court at The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England
• Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, 1305 decorated by Giotto di Bondone (d 1337)
• Bather Stepping into a Tub c 1890 by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) located at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA.
• Seated Bather 1899 by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) located in a private collection.
• Nude before a Mirror 1915 by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) located in National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, Ireland.
• Parthenon in Athens, Greece.
• Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus by Praxiteles (4th century BCE) located at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Elis, Greece.
• Farnese Hercules located at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, Italy.
• Adam and Eve, c. 1485 by Hans Memling, located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
• Vitruvian Man by Cesare di Lorenzo Cesariano (1475–1543)
• Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452– 2 May 1519)
• Photograph by Oscar Gustave Rejlander (Stockholm, 19 October 1813 – Clapham, London, 18 January 1875)
• The Spring or Bather at the Source by Gustave Courbet (1819– 1877)
• Nude No. 1, 1970 by Tom Wesselmann located at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, in Madrid Spain.
• Bacchante by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842)
• The Waltz by Camille Claudel (1864–1943)
• The Mature Age by Camille Claudel (1864–1943)
• Sirens by Henrietta Rae (1859–1928)
• The Rape of Europa by Titian located at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA.
• Susanna and the Elders by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1610.
• Susanna and the Elders by Alessandro Allori, 1607.
• Susanna and the Elders by Lorenzo Lotto, 1517.
• The Triumph of Samson by Guido Reni (1575–1642)
• Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini at Santa Maria della Vittoria, ‎Rome, Italy.
• Saint Sebastian by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680).
• David by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) located at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy.
• Saint Dominic Adoring the Crucifixion by Fra Angelico (c 1395 –1455) located at the Museum of San Marco in Florence, Italy.
• Crouching Boy by Michelangelo located at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia.
• Crouching Venus and Cupid in the Farnese collection at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, Italy.
• Drawing of Venus by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
• Venus of Urbino, 1534 by Titian located at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
• The Pietà by Jusepe de Ribera located at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.
• Primavera by Sandro Botticelli located at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
• Venus of Willendorf located at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
• Esquiline Venus at the Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy.
• Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles.
• The Knidos Aphrodite, Roman copy of a 4th century BC Greek original.
• Venus de’ Medici located at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
• Capitoline Venus at the Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy.
• Sculpture by Giovanni Pisano.
• Expulsion from the Garden of Eden fresco by Masaccio.
• Girls Bathing in the Open Air (Out of Doors), 1890 by Anders Zorn.
• Bathsheba at Her Bath by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.