Word: nude
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...years. For a hundred years after his time there was not a work which showed any appreciation by the the artists of the beauties of the human form. All their figures they clothed in heavy draperies; and even Fra Angelico, the best of them, seemed to consider the nude below his dignity...
...have shown, then, that our people are ready for their great sculptor; that the conditions of life with us are in the main there necessary to the production of a great art. We are learning to look upon the nude form in the way that Greece regarded it, viz: as the highest possible embodiment of a man's conception of and love for ideal beauty, veritably the temple of the spirit. When we learn that to have a beautiful and finely developed form requires moderation in life and subjection to the spiritual. then shall we know that the nude form...
...Knickerbocker Nuggets. The collection covers a period from the Indian wars of 1725 through the War of the Rebellion. It does not pretend to be complete, but representative, and to include especially the poems which had a marked influence at their time of publication. Many of these poems are nude in construction, but all are full of vigor. They are interesting also, as showing the development of popular feeling, especially in 1860-61. The book would not have been complete without the last four songs "John Brown's Body," "Marching Through Georgia," "The Battle Cry of Freedom," and "Tramp, Tramp...