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Kröller-Müller Museum [ 1], Otterlo. Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he made in 1890 in Saint-Rémy de Provence based on an early lithograph. [ 2][ 3] The painting was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse in his health some two months before his ...
Discomforts of an Epicure, 1787 (image 27 x 20 cm, in mat 43 x 33 cm) [1]. This is a descriptive list of erotic etchings and drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, based upon the research of Henry Spencer Ashbee published in his three-volume bibliography of curious and uncommon books: Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877), Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (1879) and Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885).
Depictions of nudity include all of the representations or portrayals of the unclothed human body in visual media. In a picture-making civilization, pictorial conventions continually reaffirm what is natural in human appearance, which is part of socialization. [ 1] In Western societies, the contexts for depictions of nudity include information ...
Human penis. In human anatomy, the penis ( / ˈpiːnɪs /; pl.: penises or penes; from the Latin pēnis, initially "tail" [ 1]) is an external male sex organ ( intromittent organ) that serves as a passage for excretion of urine and ejaculation of semen. The main parts are the root, body, the epithelium of the penis including the shaft skin, and ...
[1]: 1 For the first decades of the 20th century, male nude swimming was associated with a trope of the "old swimming hole" [2] as representing childhood innocence and adult masculinity. In their own classes, nudity was rare for girls based upon an assumption of modesty, but might include young children.
Orphan Man, Wearing a Blouse, with Broom and Pipe: December 1882 Private collection The Hague F 996 JH 283 Old Man with a Top Hat: December 1882 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam The Hague F 985 JH 289 Orphan Man with Top Hat: December 1882 Worcester Art Museum: The Hague F 954 JH 287 Head of a Woman (probably Sien) December–January 1882–83
The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, [ 1][ 2] was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when viewed from the north. The rock formation, 1,200 feet (370 m) above Profile Lake, was 40 feet ...
The historical evolution of the nude in art runs parallel to the history of art in general, except for small particularities derived from the different acceptance of nudity by the various societies and cultures that have succeeded each other in the world over time. The nude is an artistic genre that consists of the representation in various ...