Figure Painting - History and Styles

History and Styles

Antiquity
Thebes ca 1400 BCE
5th-century mural painting from the Ajanta Caves, India
Winged genius, fragment. Second-style mural painting, Roman artwork, late 1st century BC.
Mythological/Religious
Reclining Nymph by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Adam and Eve (1507) by Albrecht Dürer
Venus and the Lute Player (1565-1570) by Titian
Oedipus and the Sphinx (1808) by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Apotheosis of Homer (1827) by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Impressionist
Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (The Artist's Mother) (1871) by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Young Spartans Exercising, c. 1860 by Edgar Degas
Academic
The Wave (1896) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Winged Figure (1889) by Abbot Handerson Thayer
William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River (1908) by Thomas Eakins
Modern
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) by Marcel Duchamp. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Sitzender weiblicher Akt mit aufgestützen Ellbogen (1914) by Egon Schiele
Red Nude (1917) by Amedeo Modigliani
Woman III (1953) by Willem de Kooning

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