This essay is comparing paintings of reclining female nudes thru the history of art. - Ingres' "La Grande Odalisque" and Manet's "Olympia" a Comparison The reclining female nude has been a recurring image in the history of European art. Each artist through time approaches the subject in a different, individualized way. An earlier example of the reclining nude is Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus," created around 1510(see fig. 1). His nude is painted using the clair obscur method …showed first 75 words of 972 total…

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