The Nude in Art with Tim Marlow
The Enlightenment
S1 • E3 Jan 1, 2010 25m
In The Enlightenement, Tim Marlow examines works of art such as Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson, Ingre's Turkish Bath and Rodin's The Age of Bronze. All illustrate the many different uses the nake form was now having. For some, it represented virtue, for others, vice. It was used to shock, to coerce, to titillate, to impress, and to instruct.