A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FEMALE NUDE IN WESTERN ART
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Vanity (Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation), Hans Memling, 1485, oil on oak panel, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, France
Sleeping Venus, Giorgione, 1510, oil on canvas, Germäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany
Venus of Urbino, Titian, 1538, oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Venus at Her Mirror, Diego Velazquez, 1644, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London, England
The Grand Odalisque, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1814, oil on canvas, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Olympia, Edouard Manet, 1856, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
The Birth of Venus, Alexandre Cabanel, 1863, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay