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Tracing the entire arc of Renoir’s career, this volume examines the different approaches the artist employed in his various depictions of the subject—from his works that respond to Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne, to his late, and still controversial, depictions of bathers that inspired the next generation of artists. Eminent scholars not only look at the different ways that Renoir used the nude as a means of personal expression but also analyze Renoir’s art in terms of a modern feminist critique of the male gaze.     Offering the first-ever comprehensive investigation of Renoir’s nudes, this beautifully illustrated study includes approximately 50 works, including paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures. The book also features an interview with the contemporary figurative painter Lisa Yuskavage that considers Renoir’s continuing influence and the historical significance of the female nude in art.  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It features two essays by leading specialists in 16th-century Renaissance art, Dr. Mary Shay-Millea and Dr. Linda Wolk-Simon. They explore, respectively, the stylistic relationship between this masterpiece and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, also dating from this period, and the link between the work and Petrarch's notions of beauty in Renaissance art, as well as attributions and the painting's distinct iconography. The painting poses many interesting questions about both nuptial imagery and patronage during the 15th and 16th centuries.  Esther Bell presents details of the painting's conservation; recent x-rays of the panel have revealed that the animal figure was originally intended to be a dog, and was altered, possibly as a result of a change to the terms of the artist's commission when the unknown sitter's marriage was called off.  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