Why Are They All Naked? The History of Nudity in Art

«Why are they all naked?» — such a question inevitably arises in the head of a visitor to the halls of ancient art or Renaissance art, and sometimes it stuns even a viewer of contemporary art. The answer will be different for each era, and art historian Yulia Pavlotskaya has gathered them in her book.

You will learn:
- Why nudity was once glorified and then prohibited.
- Why Michelangelo sculpted David naked, shocking the people of Florence.
- Why 18th-century aristocrats commissioned their portraits in the guise of naked goddesses.
- Why Picasso and Modigliani broke the forms of the body, creating a new language of nudity.
- How photographers and artists of the 20th century made the naked body an instrument of rebellion against conventions.