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Rembrandt disagreed with Michelangelo’s ideal and addressed both the male and female nude. His gaze shows the human body unfiltered and true to life in stark contrast to the ideal of Renaissance master Michelangelo.
The exhibition presents drawings, prints and sculptures that address the theme of the ideal body through the centuries.The monotheistic belief system drove gods and goddesses out of the Greco-Roman pantheon, including the worship of the feminine ideal of Venus. Over time, women became more and more hidden and found themselves on the «dark side of the moon».
During the Renaissance, artists began to represent female bodies through stereo- types without any real emancipation.
While Boucher gives pride of place to eroticism by painting nude, reclining wo- men, Michelangelo himself drew very few nude women, instead giving male bodies a feminine appearance.
Albrecht Dürer
Adam and Eve, 1504 Engraving
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna