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“So much of the history of art is the anonymity of women, whether she’s a Madonna, Venus or a nude bather,” says art historian Katy Hessel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

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

Government proposals to prevent nude images being shared taken and shared by children were originally proposed as part of the government's violence against women and girls strategy.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

On Wednesday, one of Freud’s four nude portraits of her sold at Sotheby’s London for $39 million, the third-highest auction price for the artist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Gliding nearly nude beneath the trees, cultivating their temporary gardens, the Yanomamo are often said to be windows into the past, living much the same lives as their great-great-great- grandparents.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The handmade stoneware tiles of Florencia Rothschild at Wishbone honor femininity and self-care in mural-like assemblages of nudes engaging in yoga, Pilates and rest, foregrounding the human form without sexualizing it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

The Text with Jesus app is inextricably linked to the deepfake nudes generated by supercharged tools from Microsoft and Google — in that they share one foolish premise at core.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2023

Unlike the fleshy, pulchritudinous and radiant nudes of Rubens and Renoir, Mr. Pearlstein’s models are painted as ordinary human beings.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022

Classical and modern, universal and particular, grand and everyday, his reclining nudes or wrecked cars appear to slide through time itself.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022

It was Michelangelo’s habit to base his female figures on male nudes drawn from life.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson