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Most discussion of "the nude" in art usually refers to female nudes. In the last century, the term nude has been used almost exclusively for paintings of naked women. Men without clothes were considered to be an undesirable subject for art at this time. Yet there are many great examples of male nudes throughout art history, with Michelangelo's David being perhaps the most popular example. The vast majority of male nudes in art seem to be statues. Interestingly, whenever men were depicted without clothes, the meanings were very different from those implied by female nudity. Art historian Margaret Walters has said "Over the centuries of Western civilization, the male nude has carried a much wider range of meanings, political, religious and moral, than the female.
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