Study for the ceiling of City Hall. Figure symbolizing the city of Madrid

The painting 'Study for the Ceiling of City Hall. Figure Symbolizing the City of Madrid' masterfully employs the classical tradition of the artistic genre of the nude. Paying homage to the formal aesthetic rooted in Neoclassicism, the art piece details the naked human body in a stylistic styling that is typical of the genre. The choice of nudity in art, mirroring the social norms and aesthetics of the era, is seen in the design of the figure that symbolizes the city of Madrid. Highly complex due to its formal, aesthetic, and iconographic variants, the use of the nude genre, allows an eloquent depiction of one of the most significant subjects in the history of Western art.