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Working on this presentation of master pieces, two things in particularly struck me and would deserve a closer look :
• The rise of the Christian church clearly had dramatic consequences for the nude in art : it is impossible to find a single example for the whole period between 300 and 600 AD!
• Whilst it was the male body which represented the overwhelming majority of nudes from Antiquity until the Renaissance, a certain balance between the genders was acheived during the Baroque period, but from the 19th century until today, the female nude has become almost a standard!
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