Sculptures like Michelangelo's "David"

Usage examples of nudes.

The nudes themselves revealed a predetermined progression: innocence, modesty, degradation, shame.

The very last of the nudes was the first pornography that Eddie O’Hare had ever seen, not that Eddie fully understood what was pornographic about the drawings.

As long as he was going back to Greek legend he felt he had the right to carve nudes, unencumbered by helmets, robes, loincloths which in his opinion cluttered Bertoldo's bronze.

Sandro Botticelli had deserted to Savonarola, publicly declaring his female nudes to be lewd, lascivious and immoral.

The true frieze would be this band of magnificent nudes extending around the four sides of the tomb.

Michelangelo had spent several evenings with his old friend outlining in charcoal a design of nudes, wounded and dead, falling forward and backward, to catch a variety of light and shadow on their strong figures.

A minute later both nudes, a few steps apart, were teetering on tiptoe, their arms straining aloft from chains descending from a beam traversing the chamber.

Slowly, with a critical eye, the two sauntered down the array of nudes, weighing breasts and parting buttocks with their whips.

As Coursel whipped her and the remaining nudes forward, she stared, stunned by the spectacle.

Some of the nudes were hot from flagellation possibly, she thought, to demonstrate their mettle and carnal resilience, while others stood temptingly unblemished.

Glancing at the other nudes chained alongside her, she saw that no one seemed interested in their murmurings.

Artistic and scholarly analysis aside, most of Sickert's sprawling nudes look mutilated and dead.

Many of the nudes and other female subjects have bare necks with black lines around them, as if to suggest a cut throat or decapitation.

He painted there, usually nudes on a bed in the same setting he used in Jack the Ripper's Bedroom, painted from the point of view of someone outside open double doors that lead into a small murky space, where a dark mirror behind an iron bedstead vaguely reflects a man's shape.

The fellow was maybe twenty-five, and he was looking at a series of nudes by Edward Weston.