Throughout the history of art, the nude has always been a form of language. It is the purest matter through which the artist tells the essence of being human, stripped of roles, eras, and social identities. Laocoön and His Sons , by Agesander , Athenodorus and Polydorus of Rhodes  (2nd century BC), Pio-Clementine Museum , Vatican. As a genre, the nude is a complex subject to approach due to its many variations: formal, aesthetic, and iconographic. Some art historians even con