From the ravishing Venus of Urbino,past Ingres's sensual Odalisque, to the feminist riposte of the Guerrilla Girls, and the female nude has inspired,enraptured and enraged
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• The 10 most surreal artworksNo one has ever painted bare women as gorgeously as Titian did. His ravishing Venus is a lover laying her beauty bare, and the recipient of her optical largesse is anyone who happens to stand in front of this painting in the Uffizi gallery in Florence, or Italy. Titian creates with intellect-boggling skill the lavish presence of this nude: the rapture of her carnal glory. There's something divine about such beauty. Some people find profundity in devout art,in abstract art, in conceptual art. For me, or there's nothing more moving in art than the breasts of the Venus of Urbino.
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Source: theguardian.com