First Italian Renaissance painter of erotic art
Antonio Pisanello (c. 1395-c. 1455) has been taken as one of the first Italian artists to see in
the nude form the
wide scope for erotic art. He produced copies of the Bacchic Sarcophagi in the Campo Santo
collection of
antique art in Pisa, and then added to some of these an erotic component, for instance he drew
the legs of a
young girl to suggest "uninhibited delight in sexuality."