Artists have been depicting the naked body for quite some time. As the Metropolitan Museum of Art puts it, this is perfectly natural, given the fact that humans spend a lot of their time without clothes, "from birth to the bath to the boudoir." Yet, after centuries of ogling the nude body on canvas or as sculpture, audiences still have a hard time talking about what they're seeing. Last week, when Amedeo Modigliani's "Reclining Nude" sold for a jaw-dropping $170 million at auction, Bloomberg N...
Artists have been depicting the naked body for quite some time. As the Metropolitan Museum of Art puts it, this is perfectly natural, given the fact that humans spend a lot of their time without clothes, "from birth to the bath to the boudoir." Yet, after centuries of ogling the nude body on canvas or as sculpture, audiences still have a hard time talking about what they're seeing. Last week, when Amedeo Modigliani's "Reclining Nude" sold for a jaw-dropping $170 million at auction, Bloomberg N...
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