Early Nude Male ArtEarly Nude Male Art has been depicted from the earliest times: on cave walls, in paintings, on stone and in every other way possible. We review some of these early depictions. In this section we will see examples of such art in Prehistoric Cave Art, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece , and Ancient Rome , as these examples are ready at this time. We plan on gathering further examples of the Art of the Male Nude from Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China and Japan, as well as the European Middle Ages and the European Gothic Period.None of these cultures celebrated Early Nude Male Art more than the Ancient Greeks. Beginning in the Fifth Century Before the Common Era (BCE), Greeks began portraying heroes and athletes as nudes. Among the Greeks we have the named artists of Lysippos, Myron and Naukydes . There were also many anonymous artists whose names we have lost, including the Diver Artist . The Greeks and later the Romans progressed and reached a pinnacle in these depictions.
With the collapse of Classical Civilization in the Fifth Century of the Common Era, this thousand year period came to an end in Western Europe. Therefore, no culture celebrated less the beauty of the male nude than the European periods of the Middle Ages and the Gothic Era.
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