Alphonse Mucha Was Born 166 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude Body Into Ornament — and Changed Art Forever.
On this day in 1860, in the small Moravian town of Ivančice, a boy was born who would grow up
Art History
Before the Nude Was an Idea, It Was a Dissection: How Renaissance Artists Learned Anatomy from Cadavers
When you stand before a Renaissance nude — a Michelangelo ignudo twisting against the Sistine ceiling, a Leonardo study of
Edward Hopper Was Born 144 Years Ago Today. He Reinvented the Nude as a Portrait of American Loneliness.
On July 22, 1882, in the shipbuilding town of Nyack, New York, Edward Hopper was born. He would become the
Lovis Corinth Was Born 168 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Body as a Battlefield.
When we talk about the nude in Western art, we tend to reach for words like ideal, beauty, perfection. Greek
Max Liebermann Was Born 179 Years Ago Today. He Moved the Nude Body from the Salon to the Seashore.
If you know Max Liebermann, you probably know him as the painter of Berlin’s bourgeoisie — the man who chronicled
Edgar Degas Was Born 192 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Body the Way It Actually Looks When No One’s Watching.
Edgar Degas Was Born 192 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Body the Way It Actually Looks When No
The Male Nude: Why Art History Forgot Half the Body
The Default Nude If I say "the nude in art," what comes to mind? A reclining Venus. A bathing woman.
The Nude Body Isn’t a Subject. It’s a Language.
Walk through any major museum and you’ll find them: the nudes. They hang in the Renaissance wing, the Baroque galleries,
Camille Corot Was Born 230 Years Ago Today. He Was France’s Greatest Landscape Painter — But His Secret Nudes Were His Real Masterpieces.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot \u2014 born 230 years ago today, on July 16, 1796 \u2014 is remembered as the master of the
Rembrandt Was Born 420 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude Body Human for the First Time.
Rembrandt van Rijn was born 420 years ago today, on July 15, 1606, in Leiden. Four centuries and two decades