nudes

Shatterer of glass ceilings

3 June 2023 9:00 am

Reviewing the Prado’s joint exhibition of Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana in the Art Newspaper three years ago, Brian Allen…

Hello, boys

9 May 2020 9:00 am

‘Naughty little nudes,’ my history of art teacher used to say of Cranach’s Eves and Venuses. Aren’t they just? Coquettish…

How I’d make a success of a nude-free Playboy

17 October 2015 8:00 am

I can’t say that I’m surprised Playboy has decided to stop publishing pictures of naked women. On the contrary, I…

Edgar Degas - Dancer slipping on her shoe (1874)

‘Draw lines, young man’

19 April 2014 9:00 am

Lucian Freud once said that ‘being able to draw well is the hardest thing — far harder than painting, as…