The exhibition presents the female nude as the renewed genre of the 19th century and at the same time the heir of the renaissance humanist way of portrayal. We approach the art in which science 'discovered' the female gender from different point of views. The exhibition puts female nude presentation into the renaissance academic medium in which the European art of the New Age came to existence and in which the task of presenting a living female nude belonged to academic art instead of the guilds. It is a strange contradiction that the knowledge of female anatomy was unattainable for the artists since nude women were only provided at the academies of London, Paris, and Munich. The situation was that until the 1850's.