Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud
Here is your array to identify. Some of these are “unlikely” subjects for their artists so...
...as always, kiddos, remember the honor system here...
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#2 looks like a representation of Aquarius, 'The Water Bearer.' but that hasn't helped in finding it.
I like #1, but I've been up to my eyeballs in balony/sunset/seashore works without finding it.
I may look for another one I haven't tried yet. Wish me luck! 
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you gave us the list of nationalities...first looking at Wyeth, then Whistler.
That sketch was done on wood and I can see the wood grain in it, now that I know.
This other one, twenty yrs later:
(I never knew about his nifty little butterfly signature, seen on this one)
Michelangelo's "Cubby" is widely regarded as his masterpiece. 
Your clue did it! Thanks! 
Funny thing is, I looked for Whistler for #3 at first, but neglected to do it for this one despite the oriental style (especially the use of gold).
Speaking of art...
1. Whistler, Annabel Lee
2. Annibale Carracci, Allegory of River
3. Wm. Merrit Chase, Back of a Nude
4. Eakins, William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
5. Constable, Male Nude study
6. Yves Klein, Anthropometrie.
thanks for joining in, everybody! See you next Friday!
all of the brightness and color on it, which is probably what caused the kerfluffle about her underwear, hee hee.
I've not gotten into #2 yet and all I know about Carracci are his little cherubs, the one holding handfuls of flowers and the two peeking thru bushes...gave them to my daughter for her bedroom wall when she was little.
A Cherub Carrying Flowers (2)
Details of Putti from Diana and Endymion
What a marvelous thing to do...I am undone by this...totally thrilled...a great gift to a child, what could be better?
the one playing the lute, a Fiorentino; Raphael's little pair; the Bouguereau of Psyche and Cupid. My favorite is hanging right here in a hallway now and I don't even know if it's a classic or not, but we fought over whether she could take it when she left home almost two decades ago...a strikingly beautiful face, with arms clutching chest, both hands on shoulders (I think it represents my girl, to me, which is why I wouldn't let her have it).
My own big brother did similar for me, after he went away to college and actually got to study art. Over the years, he gifted me with many history of art books, print books, studies of various artists that I took a liking to, and oh so many pictures. Most of those are in storage, as I'm cramped for space here, but I've dug out my old copy of "100 of the World's Most Beautiful Paintings" a while back (he gave me that after I was in high school), just to try and figure where I'd seen one of your challenges.
that painting. It's a horror...http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=
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It is why I don't like the artist so much (but he was, after all, a Mannerist), but of course the putti are lovely...what a difference!
You are so lucky to have that big brother!
and I agree, those little angels are the nicest thing about that one (we had those two, too). Didn't know that Fiorentino was a Mannerist, but looking at that picture, I'm beginning to understand what you meant about that period, last week. Maybe they were trying to strike the fear of god back into the common folk, eh, what with the Reformation and all?
Paint the freakiest pictures ever, that'll straighten 'em out!
Here is the other Fiorentino that I used to have, his musician:
And Raphael's angels:
Raphael detail, Sistine Madonna
