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 T&A 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.