the nude
Example Sentences
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John Quincy Adams used to walk from the White House down to the Potomac and go swimming — often in the nude.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Sue Tilley was 35 years old and working in a London employment office when she disrobed and let British artist Lucian Freud paint her in the nude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Jones' family backed a £120,000 fundraising campaign to have him immortalised as the nude organist, a recurring character he played in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
It also challenges the long-held notion, promoted by the art historian Kenneth Clark in the 1950s, that the nude is inherently a Western genre, beginning with the Greeks, through 15th-century Italy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Although less excellent than the Baptism as a study of the nude, the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden is a masterpiece of which it is impossible to speak too highly.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
