a look at

Most Famous Erotic Paintings

history

Erotic artwork is a type of art that has been developed with the goal of sexually stimulating its intended viewers, and that achieves this goal to some extent.

significance

Paleolithic images and sculptures are among the oldest extant instances of sexual representations, although erotic artwork has been created by many cultures.

i modi

The text “I Modi” was a woodcut book made in the early 16th century. In Italy, erotic fine art took numerous forms, but artist Giulio Romano is most known for his iconic I Modi drawings.

20th century

In the mid-20th century, realism and surrealism introduced new ways of representing the naked. 

NOTABLE EROTIC ARTWORKS

Lascivie (1600) Agostino Carracci

Drawing of an Erotic Scene with Three Women and One Man (1809) Henry Fuseli

OTHER NOTABLE ARTWORKS

Memory of the Halls of Mirrors in Brussels (1920) by Otto Dix The Great Masturbator (1929) by Salvador Dalí