Nude Gallery

Anger (Ira), from the series of the The Seven Deadly Sins , engraved

XJF175730 Anger (Ira), from the series of the " The Seven Deadly Sins", engraved by Pieter van der Heyden (c.1530-72) and published by Hieronymus Cock (c.1510-70), 1558 (engraving) by Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-69) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Latin quotation is taken from Ovid's Ars Amatoria; iii, 503: "Ora tument ira, nigrescunt sanguine venae" ("Their faces swell, their veins grow black with rage"); ); Flemish, out of copyright

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Cupid and Psyche, 1817 (oil on canvas)

499559 Cupid and Psyche, 1817 (oil on canvas)
by David, Jacques Louis (1748-1825); 221x282 (framed) 184.2x241.6 (unframed) cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: David used the story of Cupid and Psyche to explore the conflict between idealized love and physical reality. Cupid, lover of the beautiful mortal Psyche, visited her nightly on the condition that she not know his identity. Cupid was usually depicted as an ideal adolescent, but here David presents him as an ungainly teenager smirking at his sexual conquest.David took inspiration from a number of ancient texts, including an obscure, recently published Greek poem by Moschus that describes Cupid as a mean-spirited brat with dark skin, flashing eyes, and curly hair.
); Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund; French, out of copyright

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view of a Samoan Pe'a tattoo, 19th Century (photo)

1079611 view of a Samoan Pe'a tattoo, 19th Century (photo); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Pe'a is the popular name of the traditional male tattoo of Samoa, which was originally called the malofie;
The pe'a covers the body from waist to the rectum and then to knees. The word tattoo in the English language is believed to have originated from the Polynesian word tatau;); Prismatic Pictures ; out of copyright

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