Michelangelo Antonioni, Director of Blow Up, Born -- September 29, 1912

Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni revolutionized world cinema in 1960 with L’Avventura, the sensual story of a woman who disappears shot in a radically original style.

That same year, Antonioni also helmed La Notte, another remarkable success. It hardly seems a coincidence that both of these breakthroughs contained female nudity.

However, Antonioni truly broke open skinternational possibilities with the swinging London mystery Blow Up, which showcased name starlets -- Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Birkin, to be precise -- in amazing, taboo-shattering states of undress. The result was a critically hailed milestone and global box-office blockbuster.

From there, Antonioni joined the ranks of filmdom's reigning masters, and he consistently delivered bare female flesh throughout his career.

Among his TA laden triumphs are Identificazione di una Dona, Beyond the Clouds, and his very last effort, Eros.

Michelangelo Antonioni died in 2007, but his skinematic legacy will live, lustily, forever.