{"product_id":"tentazione-luciano-gasbarri","title":"TEMPTATION - LUCIANO GASBARRI","description":"\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs a genre, the nude is a complex issue to address due to its numerous variants, both formal and aesthetic and \u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Iconographic\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iconografiche\"\u003eiconographic\u003c\/a\u003e , and there are \u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Art historians\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Storici_dell%27arte\"\u003eart historians\u003c\/a\u003e who consider it one of the most important, if not the most important one in the history of \u003ca title=\"Western art\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arte_occidentale\"\u003eWestern art\u003c\/a\u003e ; according to the Spanish historian, essayist and critic \u003ca class=\"new\" title=\"Francisco Calvo Serraller (the page does not exist)\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Francisco_Calvo_Serraller\u0026amp;action=edit\u0026amp;redlink=1\"\u003eFrancisco Calvo Serraller\u003c\/a\u003e , «nudity is not only an art form, but it is the very explanation - or logic - of Western art: the dramatic point or crossroads between the natural and the heaven, between the ideal and the true, between the carnal and the spiritual, ultimately between the body and the soul» \u003csup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Storia_del_nudo_artistico#cite_note-1\"\u003e[1]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e . \u003ca class=\"new\" title=\"Javier Portús (the page does not exist)\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Javier_Port%C3%BAs\u0026amp;action=edit\u0026amp;redlink=1\"\u003eJavier Portús\u003c\/a\u003e , \u003ca title=\"Art curator\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curatore_d%27arte\"\u003eart curator\u003c\/a\u003e and conservator of the \u003ca title=\"Prado Museum\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Museo_del_Prado\"\u003ePrado Museum\u003c\/a\u003e , also believes that «for centuries the nude has been the art form par excellence present in the West, being able to best express all the other values ​​through colour and pictorial material». \u003csup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Storia_del_nudo_artistico#cite_note-2\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e .\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\r \n\r \n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlthough often associated with \u003ca title=\"Eroticism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erotismo\"\u003eeroticism\u003c\/a\u003e , the nude can actually acquire various interpretations and alternative meanings, from that inherent in \u003ca title=\"Mythology\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitologia\"\u003emythology\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca title=\"Religion\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religione\"\u003ereligion\u003c\/a\u003e , to the study of \u003ca title=\"Anatomy\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anatomia\"\u003eanatomy\u003c\/a\u003e or, finally, also - due to its intrinsic qualities - that of the maximum possible representation of the ideal (in the sense of \u003ca title=\"Good (philosophy)\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bene_(filosofia)\"\u003egood\u003c\/a\u003e , as a principle or \u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ethical\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Etico\"\u003eethical\u003c\/a\u003e value to be pursued) of \u003ca title=\"Beauty\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bellezza\"\u003eBeauty\u003c\/a\u003e and aesthetic perfection, as happens for example in the \u003ca title=\"Figurative art\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arte_figurativa\"\u003efigurative art\u003c\/a\u003e of \u003ca title=\"Ancient Greece\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antica_Grecia\"\u003eancient Greece\u003c\/a\u003e . Its representation has varied according to the social and cultural values ​​of each historical era and each population, and just as for the Greeks the body was a source of pride, so for the \u003ca title=\"Jews\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ebrei\"\u003eJews\u003c\/a\u003e - and consequently for the subsequent \u003ca title=\"Christianity\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cristianesimo\"\u003eChristianity\u003c\/a\u003e - it revealed itself instead to be a source of extreme embarrassment, a condition of \u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Slaves\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schiavi\"\u003eslaves\u003c\/a\u003e and the miserable \u003csup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Storia_del_nudo_artistico#cite_note-3\"\u003e[3]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e .\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\r \n\r \n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe study and artistic representation of the human body has been a constant throughout the history of art, from \u003ca title=\"Prehistory\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Preistoria\"\u003eprehistory\u003c\/a\u003e , with the \u003ca title=\"Venus of Willendorf\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venere_di_Willendorf\"\u003eVenus of Willendorf\u003c\/a\u003e , to name just one of the best-known examples. One of the cultures in which the \u003ca title=\"Representation of nudity\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rappresentazione_della_nudit%C3%A0\"\u003erepresentation of artistic nudity\u003c\/a\u003e most proliferated was that of the \u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Classical world\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mondo_classico\"\u003eclassical world\u003c\/a\u003e in Greco-Roman antiquity, where it was quickly conceived as an ideal (as in the \u003ca title=\"Heroic nude\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nudo_eroico\"\u003eheroic nude\u003c\/a\u003e ), aesthetic but also \u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ethical\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Etico\"\u003eethical,\u003c\/a\u003e of perfection and \"absolute beauty\"; a concept that endured throughout \u003ca title=\"Classicism (art)\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classicismo_(arte)\"\u003eclassicism\u003c\/a\u003e , largely influencing \u003ca title=\"Western civilization\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civilt%C3%A0_occidentale\"\u003eWestern civilization\u003c\/a\u003e 's perception not only of the nude but also of art as a whole.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\r \n\r \n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDuring the \u003ca title=\"Middle Ages\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medioevo\"\u003eMiddle Ages,\u003c\/a\u003e artistic representation was limited to the most specifically religious and \u003ca title=\"Theology\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teologia\"\u003etheological\u003c\/a\u003e themes, based on passages from the \u003ca title=\"Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bibbia\"\u003eBible\u003c\/a\u003e , the \u003ca title=\"Sacred text\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Testo_sacro\"\u003esacred Christian text\u003c\/a\u003e ; only in this way could their representation in the various art forms be justified. With the beginning of the \u003ca title=\"Renaissance\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rinascimento\"\u003eRenaissance\u003c\/a\u003e , starting in the mid- \u003ca title=\"15th century\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XV_secolo\"\u003e15th century,\u003c\/a\u003e the new culture derived from \u003ca title=\"Humanism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umanesimo\"\u003ehumanism\u003c\/a\u003e took a direction decidedly marked by an ever-increasing \u003ca title=\"Anthropocentrism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antropocentrismo\"\u003eanthropocentrism\u003c\/a\u003e ; this led to the return of the artistic nude in grand style after long centuries of concealment, thus placing historical-mythological subjects dating back to \u003ca title=\"Paganism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paganesimo\"\u003epaganism\u003c\/a\u003e alongside the usual religious subjects of the previous centuries, especially in the form of \u003ca title=\"Allegory\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allegoria\"\u003eallegory\u003c\/a\u003e .\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\r \n\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was then in the \u003ca title=\"19th century\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XIX_secolo\"\u003e19th century\u003c\/a\u003e , especially with \u003ca title=\"Impressionism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impressionismo\"\u003eImpressionism\u003c\/a\u003e , that the nude began to lose its eminently iconographic character to be represented in its much more simply profane aesthetic qualities: the naked, sensual and self-referential image thus gradually took over.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\r \n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStudies on the nude as an \u003ca title=\"Genre (art)\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genere_(arte)\"\u003eartistic genre\u003c\/a\u003e have focused on the analysis carried out by \u003ca title=\"Semiotics\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semiotica\"\u003esemiotics\u003c\/a\u003e , first of all on the inherent relationship between the work and the spectator, as well as on the study of \u003ca title=\"Gender (social sciences)\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genere_(scienze_sociali)\"\u003egender\u003c\/a\u003e relations; \u003ca title=\"Feminism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Femminismo\"\u003efeminism\u003c\/a\u003e has criticised the use of the nude as an objectification of the \u003ca title=\"Female human body shape\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forma_del_corpo_umano_femminile\"\u003eform of the female human body\u003c\/a\u003e which would thus confirm the dominance of \u003ca title=\"Patriarchy (anthropology)\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patriarcato_(antropologia)\"\u003epatriarchal\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca title=\"Ideology\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ideologia\"\u003eideology\u003c\/a\u003e within Western society.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\r \n\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtists such as \u003ca title=\"Lucian Freud\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucian_Freud\"\u003eLucian Freud\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca title=\"Jenny Saville\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jenny_Saville\"\u003eJenny Saville\u003c\/a\u003e have developed a kind of non-idealized nude in an attempt to eliminate the traditional \u003ca title=\"Concept\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Concetto\"\u003econcept\u003c\/a\u003e of nudity, seeking its \u003ca title=\"Essence (philosophy)\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Essenza_(filosofia)\"\u003eessence\u003c\/a\u003e beyond and outside the idea of ​​beauty and discriminating distinction given by \u003ca title=\"Gender identity\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Identit%C3%A0_di_genere\"\u003egender identity.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\n\n\r \nLuciano Gasbarri was born in 1940 in Chieti. He was a very popular artist on the Roman art scene in the 1980s and founded the Roman Neo-Impressionism and Unionism movements. He promoted the Pittori del Sole art group and was a student of Giorgio de Chirico. He exhibited his work in cities such as Paris and Miami and received over 200 awards throughout his career.","brand":"CERRETI ANGELO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218809467266,"sku":"CERANG003","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/CERRETI-NUDO.jpg?v=1768476924","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/tentazione-luciano-gasbarri","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}