The Beginning of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1484–1486 During the Renaissance, desire inside the nude body in artwork was being rekindled after a thousand years. Towards the tip of Greco-Roman antiquity, Christian doctrines of celibacy, chastity, as well as the devaluation of the flesh led to your declining curiosity of nudes for patrons, and

“La Belle Noiseuse” (Jacques Rivette, 1991) Jacques Rivette’s four-hour masterpiece about the act of artistic development turns the male gaze back on itself. True, it’s hard to think of the actress who’s needed to be naked onscreen for your longer duration of time in a single movie than Emmanuelle Beart is in this just one.We get it -- th