The body

Auguste Rodin, The Walking Man, before 1900 (cast by Alexis Rudier before 1914), bronze with green patina, 85.1 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Auguste Rodin, The Walking Man

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving (fourth state), 25.1 x 20 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve

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Artemision Zeus or Poseidon

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Anavysos Kouros

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Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena ...

Kritios Boy (detail) — […]

Kritios Boy

Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ (detail) — […]

Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ

Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (detail) — […]

Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the ...

Barberini Faun (detail) — […]

Barberini Faun

Apollonius, Boxer at Rest (detail) — […]

Apollonius, Boxer at Rest (or The Seated ...

Auguste Renoir, The Large Bathers (detail) — […]

Auguste Renoir, The Large Bathers

Titian, Venus of Urbino (detail) — […]

Titian, Venus of Urbino

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21 (detail) — […]

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21

Egon Schiele, Seated Male Nude (detail) — […]

Egon Schiele, Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait)

Amedeo Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt (detail) — […]

Amedeo Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt

Lucian Freud, Standing by the Rags (detail) — […]

Lucian Freud, Standing by the Rags

Venus of Willendorf, c. 24,000-22,000 B.C.E., limestone 11.1 cm high (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna) — […]

Venus of Willendorf

Michelangelo, Slaves (detail) — […]

Michelangelo, Slaves

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #228, from the History portraits series, 1990, chromogenic color print, 6' 10 1/16" x 48" (208.4 x 122 cm) (The Museum of Modern Art) — […]

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #228

Dying Gaul (detail) — […]

Dying Gaul

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814, Oil on canvas, 91 x 162 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris) — […]

Between Neclassicism and Romanticism: Ingres, La Grande ...

A brief history of the representation of the body in Western sculpture — […]

A brief history of the representation of ...

Wangechi Mutu, Preying Mantra (detail) — […]

Wangechi Mutu, Preying Mantra

Henri Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life), 1905-06, oil on canvas, 176.5 x 240.7 cm (The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia) — […]

Henri Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre

Marina Abramović sitting with Rebecca Taylor at The Artist is Present performance at The Museum of Modern Art, 2010 — […]

Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present

Bill Viola, The Crossing, 1996, video/sound © Bill Viola (photo: stunned, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) — […]

Bill Viola, The Crossing

Kiki Smith, Lying with the Wolf, 2001, ink and pencil on paper 88 x 73 in (Centre Pompidou, Paris) © Kiki Smith — […]

Kiki Smith, Lying with the Wolf

Pepón Osorio, En la barbaria no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop), 1994 Installation at Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, mixed media installation with barbers' chairs, photographs, objects and videos (Collection of the Museum de Arte de Puerto Rico) (photo by Pepón Osorio) — […]

Pepón Osorio, En la barberia no se ...

Louise Bourgeois, Cumul I, 1969, white marble on wood base, 51 x 127 x 122 cm (Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris) © Estate of the artist (photo: Strifu, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) — […]

Louise Bourgeois, Cumul I

Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875, oil on canvas  (Philadelphia Museum of Art & the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) — […]

Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic

John Vanderlyn, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, 1809-14, oil on canvas, 68 1/2 x 87" / 174 x 221 cm (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) — […]

John Vanderlyn, Ariadne Asleep on the Island ...

Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo, attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez, c. 1715, oil on canvas (Breamore House, Hampshire, UK) — […]

Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo, attributed ...

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving (fourth state), 25.1 x 20 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve

Antonio Pollaiuolo, Battle of Ten Nudes (or Battle of Nude Men). c. 1465, engraving, 15-1/8 x 23-3/16" / 38.4 x 58.9 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — […]

Antonio Pollaiuolo, Battle of Ten Nudes or ...

Donatello, David (detail) — […]

Donatello, David

Leonardo da Vinci, Écorché (A Dead or Moribund Man in Bust Length), c. 1487, pen and ink over metalpoint on prepared paper (Royal Collection, London) — […]

The study of anatomy

Nude (detail), Paul Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892, oil on burlap mounted on canvas, 116.05 x 134.62 x 13.34 cm (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY) — […]

Paul Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching

Frederic Leighton, Bath of Psyche, 1890, oil on canvas, 189.2 x 622 cm (Tate, London) — […]

Sir Frederic Leighton, Bath of Psyche

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Depths of the Sea, 1887, watercolor and gouache on wove paper mounted on panel, 197 x 76 cm (Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum) — […]

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Depths of ...

Head and torso (detail), Statue A, from the sea off Riace, Italy, c. 460-450 B.C.E. (?), 198 cm high (Museo Archaeologico Nazionale Reggio Calabria) (photo: Luca Galli, CC BY 2.0) — […]

Riace Warriors

Mosaic in the apse of the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, 6th century (Ravenna, Italy) — […]

A new pictorial language: The image in ...

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (detail) — […]

Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp