The Renaissance nude

Introduction: the Renaissance nude, 1400-1530 / Thomas Kren, Jill Burke, and Stephen J. Campbell --

Nudity and Christian art --

The nude and Christian art / Thomas Kren --

The expansion of secular themes --

From Venus to witches: the female nude in Northern Europe / Diane Wolfthal --

Painting Venus in the poetic tradition of the Early Renaissance / C. Jean Campbell --

Naked truth: humanism, poetry, and the nude in Renaissance art, 1400-1530 / Stephen J. Campbell --

Artistic theory and practice --

The body in artistic theory and practice / Jill Burke --

The Renaissance nude and the study of the antique / Davide Gasparotto --

The nude on the margins --

Beyond the ideal nude / Stephen J. Campbell --

Personalizing the nude --

"Here's looking at you" : ambiguities of personalizing the nude / Ulrich Pfisterer --

Epilogue 1: the nude in Northern Europe in 1530 / Thomas Kren --

Epilogue 2: Michelangelo, the Sistine Ceiling, and the reception of the nude in Italy after 1530 / Thomas DePasquale --

Index.