Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - The Nude Pt. 2 - Energy

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Dear Patrons,

Thank you for your support! This week we are excited to present you with a new art history lecture, the second in a three-part series on The Nude with Tom Richards, Assistant Director of The Florence Academy of Art. While the first lecture in the series focused on how the nude can and has been used to emotionally influence the viewer, in this lecture, originally presented for students at the FAA, we are taken through many works of predominately sculpture, focussing on how the nude form has been used in various compositions and positions in order to portray dynamic movement and even movement over time! From nude figures in Greek and Roman art to Michlangelo’s Ignudi on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to famous works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Auguste Rodin, we are shown how the position and implied movement of figures impacts the narrative of an artwork and how drapery and the position of the figure can be used as tools to imply much beyond what is present in the static object or image itself. We hope you thoroughly enjoy this lecture and remind you to keep an eye out for the third and final lecture of this series, The Nude Pt. 3 - Desire!

To view the first lecture in the series please visit:

Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - The Nude Pt. 1 – Pathos 

Tom Richards is Assistant Director of the Florence Academy of Art, Principal Instructor at the academy, and a working artist based in the UK and Italy. To view his work please visit:

Instagram: @tominflorence 

Website: www.tawrichards.com 

FAA Gallery: www.florenceacademyofart.com/alumni–gallery/tom–richards

If you would like to further research the works from the lecture we have selected details on artists and artworks below, in the order presented in the lecture:

• Paintings in Cave of Altamira.
• The Horse in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge.
• The False Start by Edgar Degas, French, (1834–1917)
• Waltz by Gino Severini (1883–1966)
• Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
• Roman bronze copy of Myron’s Discobolus, 2nd century AD, Glyptothek, Munich, Germany.
• Fragmentary statue of the Lancellotti type (Discobolus Lancellotti), both of which are located at the National Roman museum, Rome, Italy.
• Detail of one of The Ignudi by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
• Details of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus located in The British Museum, London, England.
• Borghese Gladiator at the Louvre in Paris, France.
• The Fable of Arachne by Diego Velázquez in the Museo del Prado of Madrid, Spain.
• Walking Man, 1905 by Auguste Rodin (1840–1917)
• Cain fleeing after Abel's murder by Carolina Benedicks-Bruce (1856–1935)
• The Mature Age by Camille Claudel.
• Nara Temple Guardian sculptures.
• Wrestlers Roman marble located in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
• Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johann Zoffany.
• Hercules and Antaeus by Pollaiuolo in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy.
• I am beautiful by Auguste Rodin.
• Dancing faun, bronze, 2nd century BCE, located in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy.
• Two nude youths carrying a young woman and a young man by Luca Signorelli (1450–1523), located in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Germany.
• The Damned in Hell, fresco by Luca Signorelli, located in the Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy.
• Battle of the Centaurs by Michelangelo (1475 –1564) located in the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy.
• The Genius of Victory by Michelangelo, located in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy.
• Venus de Milo located in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
• Mercury by Giambologna located at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy.
• Acrobat performing a handstand by Barthélemy Prieur.
• Abduction of a Sabine Woman by Giambologna located in the Loggia Dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy.
• The Three Graces by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
• Detail of Primavera by Sandro Botticelli.
• The Three Graces by Antonio Canova.
• A Faun Teased by Children by Gian Lorenzo Bernini located the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
• La Danse, 1868, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux located on the façade of the Oper Garnier in Paris, France.
• David by Michelangelo located in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy.
• David by Gian Lorenzo Bernini located in the Borghese Gallery and Museum in Rome, Italy.
• Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini located in the Borghese Gallery and Museum.
• The Rape of Proserpina by Gian Lorenzo Bernini located in the Borghese Gallery and Museum in Rome, Italy.
• Two embracing Figures by Auguste Rodin, located in the Ashmolean Museum.
• Donatello Cantoria, by Donatello, located in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence, Italy.
• Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo.