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The 16 pages that link to Life drawing, each with the reason it gives.

• Academic artRelated: Academy students studied the figure through structured drawing sessions.

• École des Beaux-ArtsRelated: Figure study grounded the school’s instruction in anatomy and observation.

• Royal Academy of ArtsRelated: Figure drawing has been central to the Academy's teaching and its historical curriculum.

• Art Students League of New YorkRelated: Figure study has long been a central form of instruction in the League’s studios.

• National Academy of DesignRelated: Life drawing was central to the academy’s training in the human figure.

• Académie JulianRelated: Figure study was central to the academy’s studio instruction.

• Lee KrasnerRelated: Krasner’s early figure studies grounded the gestural abstraction of her later work.

• Linda NochlinRelated: Restricted access to nude models limited women’s preparation for prestigious history painting.

• Nude (art)Related: It is a practice for studying the body, not necessarily a finished nude artwork.

• Accademia di San LucaRelated: Figure study was central to the academy’s instruction and its standards of artistic skill.

• Slade School of Fine ArtRelated: Figure drawing has long been central to the Slade’s studio teaching.

• Women in the artsRelated: Restrictions on studying nude models placed women at a disadvantage in history painting.

• Annibale CarracciRelated: Carracci’s academy used observation of living bodies to ground idealized figures.

• Frederic LeightonRelated: Academic figure study underpinned the anatomical precision of Leighton's paintings and sculpture.

• William EttyRelated: Etty’s repeated study of models underpinned the anatomy and poses in his paintings.