When opposite this house I glanced in through the wide spaces of the lattice and was startled to see a large company of nude men and women splashing about together in a great tank of hot water.
Loosening the inner obi, she dropped her blue robe from her graceful shoulders, and stood before us as nude and as unconscious as the nymph of the public bath.
He made Hugo strip nude and gave him a suit of soiled clothes.
And almost all of the men were nude to the waist, sleek and shining with sweat; almost all of them drank whisky.
In the morning he took a shower and stood for a long time in front of the mirror on the bathroom door, staring at hisnude body as if it were a rune he might learn to read, an enigma he might solve by concentration.
The nude figures which are found abundantly in the Phoenician remains[1214] are figures of goddesses, especially of Astarte, who were considered not to need the ornament, or the concealment of dress.
Our artists, in these days, must always have before their eyes some nude figure to copy.
The same stiffness is shown in the treatment of faces and other nude parts of the body, as also in the rendering of movements.
In one of them, a slave pours the contents of a hydria over her nude mistress.
In both kinds of paintings draperies or the muscles of nude figures were further indicated by the incision of additional lines of the color of the surface into the figures.
Canachus was the sculptor of a famous statue of a nude Apollo in bronze, termed Philesius, at Didymi, near Miletus, and was considered as very hard in his style.
He had a more modern grasp of the nude than the masters before his day, and he dissected many bodies in order to study their anatomy.
In the Little Hospital, for the elder Lorenzo de' Medici, he painted the story of Vulcan, in which many nude figures are at work with hammers making thunderbolts for Jove.
In the same story he made a man, half nude and half clothed in the dress of a Saracen, riding a lean horse, which reveals a very great mastery of anatomy, a science little known in his age.
At Scarperia in Mugello, over the door of the Vicar's Palace, he painted a very beautiful nude figure of Charity, which has since been ruined.
The same man made a very beautiful battle ofnude figures in low-relief and of metal, which went to Spain; of this every craftsman in Florence has a plaster cast.
Though all were as nearly nude as was admissible in the presence of civilized people, they evinced not the least consciousness of personal exposure.
And as they were trying to locate it there burst into view a gigantic figure--nude and luminous, a figure that glowed like a glow-worm and bent slightly forward as it ran.
It was a nude grey thing, not unlike a man in body, but with a wolf's head.
The treatment of heads and hands and other necessarily nudeparts of the body, in order that these surfaces may harmonize with the generally unpainted drapery and background, would require pages of discussion if entered upon at all.
His early work involved a great deal of drawing, both from the nudemodel and in the way of designed and composed nude figures.
It is a part of the true traditional doctrine of art that no man should paint from the model, nude or draped; that no man should draw from the model, nude or draped, with the intention of using the drawing upon his wall surface or canvas.
A comparison of these figures with the two nude executioners in the Brera "Flagellation" will justify the assertion of Signorelli's superiority as a master of anatomy and movement.
But these are faults easy to overlook in considering the grandeur of the landscape, the beauty of the colour, and, above all, the magnificent modelling of the nude figures in the background.
On trial, however, he found that these were easily removed, and as the nude figures were revealed, he at once identified it as the picture of the nude gods, mentioned by Vasari.
Under the Virgin, apparently supporting the cherubs, is the Tree of Life, with two very fine nude figures of Adam and Eve receiving the fruit from the serpent.
In these the spiritual mood dominates and is sustained throughout, and there is no sign of the scientific absorption which sometimes in his treatment of the nude makes us too aware of the student and the realist.
Objecting to the picture on account of the nude figures, he desired Signor Tricca to sell it, and it was then bought by Mr H.
The picture, however, lacks the rugged strength which makes the Arezzo picture, with all its shortcomings, so impressive, and only in the nude figures is the old power unimpaired.
It is one of the finest studies of the nude in existence, both for the splendid anatomy of the figures and the freedom and energy of touch.
In the book was a picture of a nude woman, entitled The Female Form Divine.
And we were requested to go far in among the trees for our nude sun-baths.
We had a few warm mid-days of glorious sunshine still, and I often persuaded Darrie and Hildreth to take nude sunbaths with me back of the house .
All summer I had lacked mynude sunbaths to which I had become accustomed.
And there were seen, descending from on high, His messengers, and in the tepid eyes Gathering their flight about the secret founts Where came the virgins wandering sole to stretch The nude pomp of their perfect loveliness.
Church Congress, attacked the nude models, especially and in particular at the Royal Academy Schools.
That is as if you were to say that a woman is nude because she has fifty dresses.
All misery and every temptation come to solicit the miser: a mother and her starving child, an artist reduced to beggary, two half-nude courtesans.
He had three pairs of handcuffs, one a very close-fitting pair, placed round his wrists, and he was placed in a nude state in a cell which had been previously searched.
He was searched, and in a nude condition placed behind the bars, and, as supposed, secured.
Harry Houdini was made to disrobe, and in a nude condition was locked into the Moscow transportation cell or carette, and in less than 20 minutes he had managed to make his escape.
The name Proserpine is seemingly akin to Pure Serpent--the same Serpent, perhaps, whose form is represented in extenso at Avebury: the Bona Dea of Crete was figured holding serpents and the nude figure on the left of Fig.
The brute knew well enough that there was some connection between brown nude Bhils and his weekly allowance; but the white helmet in the sunlight annoyed him, and he did not approve of the voice that broke his rest.
Mulready's drawings from the nude are more degraded and bestial than the worst grotesques of the Byzantine or even the Indian image makers.
In this hint may also be found the true explanation of David's nude dance before the ark, and of the attending circumstances.
With the black generally of a brownish tinge, but often pale or greyish-yellow; sometimes the upper parts are pale yellow and the under parts and side of the head brown, and the area round the nude parts of the face white.
The forehead is nude and purplish in colour; the middle of the face across the nose is sooty-brown.
His narrowed, deep-set eyes shot a quick glance at the small, nude man inside the chamber, and for a second one hand hovered over the lever on the panel.
The nude figure of a lady toying with her infant: these subjects, which are avowedly of a slightly suggestive character, are handled with a grace and refinement which goes a long way to redeem the free nature of the subjects.
