Ariadne. Artist: Oscar Gustav Rejlander (British, born Sweden, 1813-1875). Dimensions: Mount: 16 1/16 in. × 13 1/16 in. (40.8 × 33.2 cm)Image: 8 1/4 × 6 1/2 in. (21 × 16.5 cm); oval. Date: 1857.Working in a place--Victorian England--where any photographic nude was considered offensive because the process implied not only the "nastiness" of the artist and vendor, but also "the degradation of the person who serves as model on the occasion," Rejlander sought to ally his work with that of noted painters. This nude study is one of a series based on figures in the work of Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Rubens, Murillo, and Gainsborough; the precedent here is Titian's Venus and Adonis, and Rejlander's intention was to show how the painter adhered to or strayed from the ways a real body can twist and turn. Critic A. H. Wall defended the propriety of Rejlander's Studies from the Nude, saying, "Refined and ennobled by art, real beauty, palpable flesh and blood, speaks of nothing but its own inheren

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Ariadne. Artist: Oscar Gustav Rejlander (British, born Sweden, 1813-1875). Dimensions: Mount: 16 1/16 in. × 13 1/16 in. (40.8 × 33.2 cm)Image: 8 1/4 × 6 1/2 in. (21 × 16.5 cm); oval. Date: 1857.Working in a place--Victorian England--where any photographic nude was considered offensive because the process implied not only the "nastiness" of the artist and vendor, but also "the degradation of the person who serves as model on the occasion," Rejlander sought to ally his work with that of noted painters. This nude study is one of a series based on figures in the work of Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Rubens, Murillo, and Gainsborough; the precedent here is Titian's Venus and Adonis, and Rejlander's intention was to show how the painter adhered to or strayed from the ways a real body can twist and turn. Critic A. H. Wall defended the propriety of Rejlander's Studies from the Nude, saying, "Refined and ennobled by art, real beauty, palpable flesh and blood, speaks of nothing but its own inheren

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