Reclining nude

Sensuous, voluptuous, provocative - the female form has inspired artists for centuries, making it perhaps the most popular subject in the history of painting. Since Giogione´s Sleeping Venus, the first notable female nude in Western painting, artists have focused on the infinite possibilities of the representation of the female body.Featuring full-page illustrations of masterpieces of the genre - from Titian´s Venus of Urbino to Manet´s Olympia, from Invres´ Large Odalisque to Lucian Freud´s Naked Girl - this volume provides a tour of Western society´s ever-changing visions of beauty and repose.