The Knidian Aphrodite

"14. Europa's kiss is sweet though it reach only to the lips, though it but lightly touch the mouth. But she touches not with the edge of the lips; with her mouth cleaving close she drains the soul from the finger-tips.

15. Where is now Praxiteles? Where are the hands of Polycleitus, that gave life to the works of ancient art? Who shall mould Melite's scented ringlets, or her fiery eyes and the splendour of her neck? Where are the modellers, the carvers in stone? Such beauty, like the image of a god, deserved a temple."

RUFINUS, From the Greek Anthology, book V, Loeb Ed.

A Tumblr about the NUDE & the BODY, especially FEMALE.
necspenecmetu: Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Venus and Adonis, 16th century

necspenecmetu:

Jacopo Palma il Giovane, Venus and Adonis, 16th century

artmastered: La Fornarina by Raphael, c.1518-19. I still cannot believe I missed seeing this at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica at the Palazzo Barberini when I was in Rome a few months ago! It was a case of too many things to see and far too little time to do it in.

artmastered:

La Fornarina by Raphael, c.1518-19. I still cannot believe I missed seeing this at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica at the Palazzo Barberini when I was in Rome a few months ago! It was a case of too many things to see and far too little time to do it in.

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sfmoma: Art for thought … Picasso’s Minotaur lying over a female centaur, 1933; plate 87 of the Vollard Suite, British Museum. Photo: Keizo Kitajima/Succession Picasso/DACS 2011 (via guardian.co.uk)

sfmoma:

Art for thought … Picasso’s Minotaur lying over a female centaur, 1933; plate 87 of the Vollard Suite, British Museum. Photo: Keizo Kitajima/Succession Picasso/DACS 2011

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realityayslum: Edward Steichen - Nude, c.1915. From Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, and the Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, 2007.

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Edward Steichen - Nude, c.1915.

From Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, and the Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, 2007.

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