The Renaissance

Overview

In this Episode of The Nude in Art we look at the role that the nude played in the Renaissance. Tim Marlow travels to England, France and Italy as part of a lively visual journey illustrating how the Christian idea of nudity associated with sin was replaced with ideas of nudity being associated with beauty and sensuality. Some of the art that Tim visits include Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's David and Giotto's The Last Judgement.