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Alexis Ford

She began nude modelling for photographers such as Stephen Hicks, Suze Randall and Holly Randall.

Alison Lapper

Made of Carrara marble, it shows Lapper nude and heavily pregnant.

Allegra Coleman

In a parody of celebrity profiles, the article described Coleman's role an upcoming movie with Woody Allen, her tempestuous relationship with David Schwimmer (including a scandal involving nude photographs supposedly taken by paparazzi) and her friendship with Deepak Chopra.

Amphitrite, the wave and the sea birds

The work consists of a nude female figure (representing Amphitrite, the wife of Neptune) and two seabirds gliding over a large geometric wave.

Anatomy for Beginners

The show features public anatomy demonstrations with the use of real human cadavers and live nude models (for Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings), carried out at Gunther von Hagens' "Institute for Plastination" in Heidelberg, Germany.

Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches

Jeffrey Burton Russell notes that "A woman named Marta was tortured in Florence about 1375: she was alleged to have placed candles round a dish and to have taken off her clothes and stood above the dish in the nude, making magical signs".

Bob Guccione, Jr.

The magazine established itself with several publishing stunts such as publishing a nude photo of Women's football celebrity Brandi Chastain.

Christiana Morgan

The nude portrait statue of Morgan commissioned by Murray from Gaston Lachaise is now owned by the Governor’s Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts.

Christina Lindberg

Lindberg did not like that nude pictures were getting more and more explicit and during the filming of Gerard Damiano's Flossie (AKA Natalie—not to be confused with a 1974 film of the same name, which was directed by Mac Ahlberg and starred Marie Forså) in West Germany—she left the set and returned home to Sweden.

Chrystabel Leighton-Porter

In 1944, when Jane first appeared nude in the cartoon, she was credited with 'inspiring' the 36th Division to advance six miles into Burma.

Clothed male, naked female

Édouard Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ("The Luncheon on the Grass"), in which a nude woman is depicted having lunch with two fully clothed men, is another famous painting whose themes were controversial when it was first displayed in 1863.

Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda

Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda (Between Marx and a Nude Woman) is a 1976 novel written by the Ecuadorian poet Jorge Enrique Adoum.

Equestrian Statue of Niccolò da Tolentino

The Italian condottiero Niccolò da Tolentino is depicted riding his horse, standing on a classical pedestal painted in geometrical perspective, and flanked by two nude men with coat of arms.

Fig leaf

Eugen Sandow, often considered the first modern-day bodybuilder, was an admirer of the human physique, and in addition to strongman sideshows, he performed "muscle displays" by posing in the nude — save for a fig leaf that he would don in imitation of statues he had seen in Italy as a boy.

Flemming Flindt

This caused less of a sensation than the couple's previous nude ballet Dødens triumf (The Triumph of Death), a television ballet in which the whole cast danced naked to a 1971 score by The Savage Rose (its stage premiere at the Royal Danish Theatre was in 1972).

François Rousseau

He has photographed the 2004, 2011 and 2012 annual issues of Dieux du Stade, a popular series of nude and semi-nude calendars based on members of Stade Français, a Paris-based French rugby team.

Full Body Massage

The film has been compared to La Belle Noiseuse, which starred Emmanuelle Béart as an artist's model who spends much of the 240-minute feature nude, discussing relationships with the artist.

Grande tête mince

Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, sold as part of the same collection as Grande tête mince, broke that record to become the most expensive work of art ever to be sold at auction.

Greek Ecologists

In 1997, an Athens prosecutor issued a warrant for Vergis' arrest after his party published a poster in which he appeared nude with a smaller picture of International Association of Athletics Federations president Primo Nebiolo inset near Vergis' genitals.

Group 90

Neither Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts nor the Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts offerd life drawing classes, and the conservative Singapore art market did not favour nude-themed art for fear of offending those with an aversion for nudity.

Hakob Gyurjian

He is the author of over 300 sculpture portraits (Feodor Chaliapin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ludwig van Beethoven, Vahan Terian, Martiros Saryan, Georgy Yakulov, etc.), also “Diana”, “Nude woman”, “Adolescence” and many others are famous sculptures.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!

The calendar features twelve semi-nude female students of journalism faculty at the Moscow State University (MSU), each for every month, with a short message.

Harry Gibson

Those two albums include some jazz, blues, ragtime, and rock and roll songs about reefer, nude bathing, hippie communes, strip clubs, male chauvinists, "rocking the 88s", and even about how hip Shirley MacLaine is.

Henrietta Leaver

Years later, discussion of Leaver’s controversial nude statue would return to prominence when Vanessa Williams lost her Miss America title, by comparing Leaver not being invited back to crown her successor as she had “posed for a nude statue” – despite wearing a bathing suit while posing, with her grandmother present and with no knowledge that the artwork would display her naked.

Jean Speegle Howard

In a 1995 episode of Roseanne, Howard appeared as an elderly neighbor who prefers to be nude while in her own home, much to the chagrin of Dan and Roseanne, who often see from their own bedroom window.

Jennie Jacques

She also appeared in slasher film Demons Never Die, in which she appeared nude during a sex scene with Robert Sheehan.

Jessica Origliasso

In January 2009, it was announced that Jessica Origliasso would pose nude for PETA after she was seen on the New York City Subway wearing a faux fur jacket with an anti-fur message on the back.

John Talbott Donoghue

It is a full-length nude sculpture of the Greek dramatist Sophocles playing a lyre while leading the chorus of victory after the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE.

La nudité toute nue

Guests interviewed included photographer of nude models Terry Richardson, Vincent Bethell who launched The Freedom to be Yourself movement, designer Tom Ford, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, the transsexual icon Amanda Lepore and popular gay pornographic actor François Sagat.

In La nudité toute nue (English translation "Nudity exposed"), director Olivier Nicklaus travels all over Europe (Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam to meet various personalities filmed in the nude.

Lana Shields

Though, Jack looked more like Adam (the first man) because of being totally nude.

Louis Pohl

Eventually, Pohl received his certificate of art upon the completion of a full standing nude copy of a Rembrandt that hung in the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Melchior Paul von Deschwanden

After going to Lausanne to learn French (1835–1836), he returned home until 1838-1840 when he studied at the Florentine Academy and whilst there he won first prize for an oil of a male nude; and yet he was particularly drawn to the works of Fra Angelico.

Micheldever

A renowned photograph by Bill Brandt, Micheldever Nude (1948), was taken inside Micheldever House, the home of the photographer's father, L. W. Brandt.

Micheline Bernardini

Micheline Bernardini (born 1927) was a former nude dancer at the Casino de Paris before being chosen by Louis Réard to model the first modern-day bikini on July 5, 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris.

Murder of Samantha Runnion

A day later, her nude body was found by a passerby in Cleveland National Forest 50 miles to the south.

My Life and Loves

As published privately by Harris between 1922 and 1927, and by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in 1931, the work consisted of four volumes, illustrated with many drawings and photographs of nude women.

Myriam Klink

In the aftermath of the Alexa winter storm of December 2013, Myriam announced that she will pose for a nude photoshoot in the snow as a statement of solidarity with the refugees of the Syrian conflict living in makeshift camps in Lebanon.

Nick Riewoldt

On 20 December 2010 a photo with a nude image of Riewoldt was posted on the social networking site Facebook by a 17-year old girl.

Nude recreation

In June 2013, the Portland Art Museum in Oregon admitted nude participants prior to the nighttime World Naked Bike Ride for a special exhibit called 'Cyclepedia' on the art of bicycle design.

Nudity in sport

The Body Issue, ESPN magazines annual issue featuring nude photographs of athletes

Pubic Wars

The first Playmate to clearly have the first full frontal nude centerfold was Miss January 1972, Marilyn Cole.

Ranger's House

However the larger part of it consists of an eclectic mix of decorative art, including Renaissance jewellery, medieval, Byzantine and Renaissance ivories, tapestries, furniture and Sèvres porcelain, as well as a life size marble sculpture by Bergonzoli of an angel kissing a semi-nude woman entitled "The Love of Angels".

Scott Masters

He began selling nude male photosets from such notable photographers of the male nude as Bruce Bellas ("Bruce of L.A."), as well as softcore nude films from Athletic Model Guild.

Stacy Arthur

In addition to her nude pictorial and centerfold in that issue, Arthur was featured on the cover, wearing a pageant-style banner that said "Miss January 1991." She continued working for Playboy, appearing in numerous Playboy videos.

Teri Byrne

She appeared in a non-nude Nitro Girls pictorial in the September 1998 issue of Penthouse, along with Melissa Bellin, Chae An, and Kimberly Page.

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking

Its cover prompted controversy for featuring a rear-view nude photograph of model and softcore pornography actress Linzi Drew.

The West Coast Photographic Movement

Notable artists and photographers included: Dody Weston Thompson, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Charis Wilson (second wife of Edward Weston and the famous model of his nude photographic work), Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange, Wynn Bullock, Don Ross, Ruth Bernhard, Willard Van Dyke, Nata Piaskowski, Beaumont Newhall and Nancy Newhall, and artists Georgia O'Keeffe, Morris Graves and Jean Charlot and his wife Zohmah Charlot.

Valérie Bègue

On a previous occasion, Fontenay had obtained the temporary suspension of Miss France 2004, Lætitia Bléger, for much more suggestive pictures published in the French edition of Playboy magazine, as a Miss France winner is contractually obligated not to pose for controversial pictures for five years after winning the title and an entrant in the Miss France contest must state that she has never posed for nude or partially nude pictures beforehand.

Young and Jackson Hotel

The pub is well known for the nude painting Chloé, painted by French artist Jules Joseph Lefebvre in 1875.


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