11 Verbs to Use for the Word nude

Cynicism was the great means of eloquence of the middle ages, and with cynicism Degas has rendered the nude again an artistic possibility.

Untitled drawing depicting Nude on scale.

Nevertheless, Ruskin is right in telling us that no Italian modelled a female nude equal to the Aphrodite of Melos, or a male nude equal to the Apoxyomenos of the Braccio Nuovo.

The suppleness, the elasticity, the sympathy with which Michelangelo handled the nude, when he began to paint in the Sistine Chapel, have disappeared.

One of the most marked features of this period was the progress in the art of design, due to bronze modelling and bas-relief; for the painters, labouring in the workshops of the goldsmiths and the stone-carvers, learned how to study the articulation of the human body, to imitate the nude, and to aim by means of graduated light and dark at rendering the effect of roundness in their drawing.

'Erbert paused; though not a prude, He had never liked the nude.

His power of representing the nude is not less remarkable.

And beholding Nala nude and melancholy, and standing with face turned towards the ground, those rangers of the sky addressed him, saying, "O thou of small sense, we are even those dice.

But the true force of the man, what made him a commanding master of the middle period, what distinguished him from all his fellows of the quattrocento, is the passionate delight he took in pure humanitythe nude, the body studied under all its aspects and with no repugnance for its coarsenessman in his crudity made the sole sufficient object for figurative art, anatomy regarded as the crowning and supreme end of scientific exploration.

It is late in the night, but the merry warriors bend and bow their nude, painted bodies before a bright center fire.

It cannot be said that even here Michelangelo felt the female nude as sympathetically as he felt the male.

11 Verbs to Use for the Word  nude