Zeekeyi Denison Yibowei

A Discourse on the Allegory of the Nude Female Forms in Paintings: Reading Their Contexts for Pedagogical Learning

This paper explores the roles of ‘female nude’ in paintings. It argues on the prevailing roles symbolisms were used to characterize ideas: looking at their symmetric relationships from social, monarchical, personal and mythological delivery before the period of the Willendorf’s discovery in Austria, the Etruscan period, up to the High Renaissance, and the Modern periods, ‘fetishism’ of the female body – gained notoriety amongst certain classes. Its creativity of espoused mainly patronage, but the practice was gradually becoming eroded with …