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The nude in art history.

85 responses to “About”

  1. Pedro | 9 August 2009 at 11:27 | Reply

    My english is very poor to express how good is your blog and how I like it, recently discovered. Thank you. So many painters which I did not know! Se lei è italiano, La ringrazio nella sua lingua.

  2. CantervilleGhost | 30 September 2009 at 02:34 | Reply

    Grazie a lei.

  3. Denis | 2 March 2010 at 14:07 | Reply

    I’ve spent the last 10 minutes or so browsing through your fine collection – a site I’ll definitely return to – Thanks for putting it together

  6. Patrick | 4 August 2011 at 13:54 | Reply

    Bonjour
    Un très bon peintre que vous pourriez rajouter …

    http://club.doctissimo.fr/elorac75/andrzej-malinowski-40419/photo/fugue-650-1429348.html

    Merci pour votre site et des découvertes que vous permettez.
    Cordialement
    PA

  7. henrietta peetawker | 9 December 2011 at 03:50 | Reply

    you forgot Ramon CASAS (1866-1932) !

  8. George | 13 January 2012 at 16:31 | Reply

    Why no Degas, Renoir, Cezanne?

    • CantervilleGhost | 13 January 2012 at 21:03 | Reply

      Maybe because I tend to propose lesser known artists. But you’re right. Give me some time, I’ll try to post them as soon as possible. Thanks.

      • Mike Rich | 29 May 2012 at 05:35 |

        No! No modernists!! They are common, out of drawing and dominate art history unfairly!Enough with the constant parade of the eternally bloated Renoir and the hideously stylized Cezanne!They are common,and usher in a degradation of the female form, CantervilleGhost your choices are sublime and perfect!

  9. Hal | 5 March 2012 at 19:30 | Reply

    Last week I had have left a message, but it disappeared, I wonder why.

    Hal

    • CantervilleGhost | 5 March 2012 at 20:55 | Reply

      I did not see your comment. It may be that WordPress automatic system wrongly placed it among the spam (the blog is daily flooded with dozens of spam). Sorry for the inconvenience.

      • Hal | 6 March 2012 at 17:07 |

        In my said message I, being a new subscriber, had expressed my deep appreciation for your Site and also asked how could I share with you
        some material from my digital collection, such material which I did not see
        on the Site. With kind regards.

        Hal

  10. Hal | 9 March 2012 at 10:14 | Reply

    To CantervilleGhost,

    Well, I still wait for your reply to my above question.

    Hal

    • CantervilleGhost | 9 March 2012 at 10:47 | Reply

      When you do a day-by-day blog you’ll always forget someone…but a blog is a personal adventure not a collective forum. A blog means having the freedom to post what you want when you want to.

      • Hal | 13 March 2012 at 16:41 |

        I think I was unable to express myself.
        I just wanted to post some material from my classics collection, but I do not
        know technically how to convey them to you.
        Pls guide me. (How can I send you jpg pictures titled with painter names?)

        Hal

  11. Tatí Dená | 9 April 2012 at 12:45 | Reply

    I love your blog! Thank you very much. I am sorry for my bad englisch.
    Thank you for collecting all these great works of artists. I could watch them the whole day! So inspiring! Thanks!

  13. Joachim Richter | 19 June 2012 at 16:30 | Reply

    A random button or RSS Feed would be nice.

  14. Jean-Joseph Chevalier | 21 July 2012 at 11:20 | Reply

    Bonjour,
    Voici des oeuvres que vous pouvez utiliser pour votre site.
    http://www.jeanjosephchevalier.com/pages/content/peinture/peinture-de-nue.html
    http://www.jeanjosephchevalier.com/pages/content/dessin/nus-a-la-sanguine-dessin.html
    Merci pour votre site qui permet de découvrir de nouveaux artistes.
    Artistiquement vôtre,
    Jean-Joseph Chevalier

  15. Claudio Barake | 30 July 2012 at 00:49 | Reply

    Good evening,I am a great fan of your work and constant research.I would like you to look up Renato Walters Ferrari, from Brazil,lives in Rio,
    teaches realist painting.Congrats!!

  16. Tarot Cirkel | 6 October 2012 at 18:02 | Reply

    Maybe you would also like the art by Gabriel Grün Yantorno
    A few of his artwork you can see on my weblog taroteca.wordpress.com
    http://taroteca.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/gabriel-grun-yantorno-the-artist/

  17. Ed | 13 October 2012 at 14:01 | Reply

    WOW, this is a great site.
    Here is a collection of mainly Swedish painters that might interest you.
    http://nakenstudier.tumblr.com
    password: konst
    Feel free to repost.
    ciao, µ

  18. mervb01 | 20 October 2012 at 13:46 | Reply

    Great blog – suggest you look at “Antonio Blanco” the so called (by himself) Dali of Bali

  19. Albagnac Gérard | 29 January 2013 at 20:20 | Reply

    Très joli site qui permet de découvrir beaucoup de peintres pas très connus. Je posséde 2 tableaux de Bohumil Marecek (des nus), je peux vous envoyer des photos si vous voulez pour les insérer dans votre site.

  20. john hunn | 8 March 2013 at 03:30 | Reply

    Thank you for maintaining such a wonderful sight. It is wonderful to see so many artist work that I have never seen or heard of before.
    You may consider my work also for your sight, John Hunn http://www.johnhunnart.com.

  21. CantervilleGhost | 8 March 2013 at 10:45 | Reply

    Thank you very much. I know and appreciate your work. I’ll post your paintings as soon as possible.

  23. Uma Maheswar Nakka | 19 March 2013 at 16:15 | Reply

    Good evening sir

    It is really an amzing and aweome site for paintings.
    I really wonder how you gathered all this material
    It is indeed a very sincere hard work
    God bless you
    My blessings to you

    Uma Maheswar
    from’
    Bangalore, India

  24. Patrick Deshaye | 26 July 2013 at 01:59 | Reply

    Your blog is a dream come true. I’ve been a figure painter for years, so my appreciation is sincere. Always in search of the finest work by so many forgotten Greats, now I find you’re busy collecting it all here, saving me endless websearches. This is a treasure. THANK YOU!

  26. Barbosa | 21 August 2013 at 18:59 | Reply

    As a form of appreciation for your site, maybe it is nice to recommend to watch the french film “La belle noiseuse”. where an artist (probably based on artist Bernard Dufour) and his intimate relation with a nude model is portrayed. Its a very long film with partially real time registration.
    There are more links that offer a connection.as far as language and subtitles is a concern.

    Cheers!

  27. Blob | 27 November 2013 at 21:21 | Reply

    I believe you lack a very famous piece by Podkowinski entitled ‘Frenzy’. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenzy_of_Exultations
    Otherwise, a nice blog.

    • CantervilleGhost | 28 November 2013 at 00:22 | Reply

      Nearly 1.700 artists and more than 13.000 paintings have been posted here but, I know, a lot of good artists and paintings will always miss…Anyway, Podkowinski will be posted soon. Thank you.

  28. Henry | 6 January 2014 at 17:50 | Reply

    Enjoying your site. Have you considered Paul-Émile Bécat 1886-1960, in particular his Casanova playing card series for Philibert?

  29. Henry | 27 January 2014 at 16:49 | Reply

    A short film about 9 minutes long called Beauty by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro. Many famous works of art containing nudity minimally animated at

  30. George | 23 June 2014 at 08:45 | Reply

    Note an absolute gem of a painting by Antonio Cioci – Self-portrait (1739) where the artist depicts himself pointing to a small model of a nude draped in some sort of diaphanous material.

    http://bit.ly/1pCuC7Z

  31. George | 30 June 2014 at 08:05 | Reply

    Adolf Born (Czech, born 1930): Dürer´s journey to Venice via Alps. 2005

    http://bit.ly/1pDBQLe

  32. Kai Teichert | 30 June 2014 at 13:17 | Reply

    Thanks for creating this website!
    Please check out this:
    http://kaiteichert.de/musundweh_gallery
    and this:
    http://kaiteichert.de/Vogelfaenger

  33. George | 23 July 2014 at 10:59 | Reply

    Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)

    http://bit.ly/1pc7mwz

  34. The John Carroll Doyle Art Gallery | 30 July 2014 at 18:52 | Reply

    Please consider adding some of the beautiful nude oils done by American Impressionist John Carroll Doyle from Charleston, SC!
    http://www.johncdoyle.com/original_list.asp?colID=5&gcID=1&stID=1

    • CantervilleGhost | 31 July 2014 at 00:38 | Reply

      I know John Carroll Doyle’s works and I’ll certainly post them. Very soon. Thank you.

  35. The John Carroll Doyle Art Gallery | 31 July 2014 at 20:30 | Reply

    Thank you for your fast response regarding the work of John Doyle. I am lucky enough to be his gallery director and love selling his amazing work – in all subjects, but especially the nudes!

  36. George | 30 August 2014 at 22:45 | Reply

    Tavik František Šimon (Czech, 1877-1942)

  37. George | 16 September 2014 at 08:58 | Reply

    Oskar Zwintscher 1870-1916

  38. George | 27 November 2014 at 18:59 | Reply

    Arthur Coulin 1869, Sibiu, Austro-Hungary – 1912, Heidelberg

  39. George | 5 December 2014 at 18:45 | Reply

    Rojan (Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky) 1891 -1970

  40. George | 31 December 2014 at 13:59 | Reply

    Denis Volx (Louis Jean-Marie Denis Valvérane) 1870-1943. Published by Blaizot, Paris, 1921 as one of a set of fifteen engravings.

    http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxpq9sjzoJ1qzun0bo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJP67HANH6OVWEMMQ&Expires=1420116747&Signature=u72Dtt9%2BY6v9BhQJPv%2Bw2oilw4s%3D#_=_

  41. George | 7 January 2015 at 18:35 | Reply

    Zdenek Burian

  42. George | 26 January 2015 at 07:33 | Reply

    Lee Price. Lemon Slices III. Oil on linen, 34 x 76 inches.

  43. George | 5 February 2015 at 08:02 | Reply

    Georges Léonnec (1881 – 1940). French.

  44. George | 5 February 2015 at 09:36 | Reply

    Georges Léonnec (1881 – 1940). French. Une page de griffonnages, Janvier 1919.

  45. George | 21 March 2015 at 09:13 | Reply

    Malcolm Liepke, Water Lilies, 2012, oil on canvas, 20 x 29 in. (50.8 x 73.7 cm).

    http://www.telluridegallery.com/artist/Malcolm_Liepke/types/Painting#!1311

  46. Anselmo | 4 July 2015 at 22:56 | Reply

    I like your site. I recommend to you the works of István Csók (Hungarian, 1865-1961).

  48. Cézal Gloiret | 18 September 2015 at 22:50 | Reply

    Merci pour toutes ces merveilles !

  49. De McClung | 6 October 2015 at 03:34 | Reply

    Why can’t I share these artists with my Facebook and G+? What happened to the icons for sharing?

    • CantervilleGhost | 6 October 2015 at 10:29 | Reply

      The share icons are always at the bottom of each article but I don’t know if they work or not. Just consider that Facebook does not allow to post nudity (they are not able to make a distinction between a Rubens nude painting and a Jenna Jameson’s pic…for this reason I can’t open a Facebook page of this blog)…

  51. Robert Rabbit | 25 August 2016 at 11:35 | Reply

    I have a suggestion. Have you ever heard of Henning von Gierke? Might fit thematically into your site. http://henningvongierke.de

  52. olivier46.fr | 29 March 2017 at 16:13 | Reply

    Love your Blog !

    Find today Tim Black’s Studio : http://gtimblack.com/

    Best Regard, Olivier

  53. Mike Brewer | 11 April 2017 at 00:01 | Reply

    You have a great blog which I refer others to often. I don’t know how you find and select the artists you have. You can see my nudes on my website and you have my permission to post them on your blog.

    • CantervilleGhost | 11 April 2017 at 01:06 | Reply

      Thank you. Your work is really appreciated. I’ll post your paintings as soon as possible.

  54. Mike Brewer | 18 April 2017 at 15:05 | Reply

    Thanks for including me in your blog. My date of birth is 1950.

  55. Tom | 20 September 2017 at 02:39 | Reply

    I absolutely love this blog, it is a journey through history and the human condition. Ive spent hours here learning and being inspired I think this blog might be my muse.Thank you Canterville Gost

  56. Mike Sanders | 24 September 2017 at 20:46 | Reply

    A most wonderful site, thank you and congratulations.. Interesting omissions, Deveria, Paul Avril etc. But I have no wish to be churlish, you did truly wonderful work!

    • CantervilleGhost | 25 September 2017 at 21:23 | Reply

      Thank you. Avril is posted here under his real name (Edouard-Henri Avril). Deveria will follow.

      • Mike sanders | 25 September 2017 at 21:47 |

        Thank you so much. Do you have encyclopedia erotic by Dopp which has a small number of artists not represented on your site…keep up the magnificent work

  57. Dave Jones | 6 October 2017 at 00:04 | Reply

    I’ve been lurking for a couple of years. Your site is fantastic! I especially enjoy Asian artists — the traditional or quasi-traditional nudes — and realism. Thank you!

  58. Walter Denn | 14 November 2018 at 17:35 | Reply

    Thank you for your extensive research!

  59. Giovanni Doe | 1 May 2019 at 13:32 | Reply

    Fatico a trovare nudi maschili. Forse la dicitura “The female nude in art history” descriverebbe più precisamente questa minuziosa e laboriosa raccolta.

  60. Giuseppe Cino | 10 May 2019 at 09:23 | Reply

    LA CONCHIGLIA DI VENERE non è abbastanza esauriente?

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