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Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1510)

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Maarten van Heemskerck (ca. 1530)

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Sofonisba Anguissola (1551)

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Anthonis van Dyck (1627)

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Jan van Helmont - Sisters of the Black Canon Augustine Convent in Antwerp (late 17th C.)

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Anonymous - Marianna Fontanella (ca. 1700)

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Nicolas de Largillière - Frances Woollascott, an Augustinian Nun (1729)

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Johann Zeiler - Saint Scholastica with Nuns of the Benedictine Order (1748)

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José Maria Vazquez - Sister Maria Antonia (1814)

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Francesco Hayez (first half 19th C.)

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Giuseppe Molteni - The Nun of Monza (1847)

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Karl Bryullov - Convent of the Sacred Heart in Rome (1849)

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Francois Boivin - Charity (1851)

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Camille Corot - Mother Superior of the Convent of the Annonciades (1855)

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Henriette Browne - Sisters of Mercy (1859)

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John Everett Millais - Vale of Rest (1859)

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Jehan Georges Vibert (1865)

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Eugene de Blaas - God's Creatures (1877)

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Ilya Repin (1878)

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Dora Noyes - Silent Life (1880)

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Philip Hermogenes Calderon - Saint Elizabeth of Hungary's Act of Renunciation (1891)

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Joan Llimona (1891)

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Arthur Hacker (1896)

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Herbert James Draper - Saint Dorothea's Day (1899)

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Luise Max Ehrler - Latest Trends (ca. 1900)

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Wilhelm Trübner (ca. 1900)

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Konstantin Makovsky (ca. 1900)

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Egon Schiele - Cardinal and Nun (1912)

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Otto Dix (1914)

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Julio Romero de Torres - Grace (1915)

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Frans de Wilde (1917)

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Gwen John (1921)

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Zinaida Serebriakova (1928)

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Ahmed Sabry (1929)

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Tamara de Lempicka (1935)

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Remedios Varo (1961)

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Fernando Botero - New Born Nun (1975)

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Andy Warhol - Ingrid Bergman as Nun (1983)

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Ramon Casas (2000s)

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Alan Macdonald (2012)

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Judy Takacs - Sister Marian Coughlin (2014)

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Andrei Mironov (2014)

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Giovanni Gasparro (2016)

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The Nun as Fetish

In art the nun has not only been a symbol of religious devotion, it has also been an object of erotic and even perverse fantasies. It is not my intention to shock people here with images that could be seen as obscene or blasphemous, but this compilation would be one-sided if I did not pay attention to this aspect. So here are some examples. 

Cornelis van Haarlem (1591)

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Martin van Meytens (1731)

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Jean Jacques Lequeu (1794)

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Félicien Rops - Saint Teresa (late 19th C.)

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Heinrich Lossow - Sin (1880)

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Alfred de Musset - Gamiani, Image VIII (1908)

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Paul Grabwinkel (1928)

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Marcel Ronay (1930)

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Paul Emile Bécat (mid 20th C.)

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Clovis Trouille (mid 20th C.)

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Louis Tresseras (after 2000)

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Arturo Ramirez (after 2000)

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Milo Manara (after 2000)

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Galan Eyakule (after 2000)

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Mark Fox (after 2000)

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Satturno Butto (after 2000)

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Shaun Berke (after 2000)

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Alexandra Manukyan - Sine Qua Non (2012)

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