Marcel Duchamp Died 58 Years Ago Today. His Final Nude Was a Secret Revealed Only After His Death.
Marcel Duchamp died on October 2, 1968, at his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris. His admirers assumed they had
Art History
Jan Gossaert Died 494 Years Ago Today. He Carried the Nude Across the Alps.
The nude has a geography. It was born in Athens, matured in Rome, and came north slowly, one painter at
The Kiss: How the Embrace Taught Artists to See Two Bodies as One
The nude is the loneliest subject in art. A single body, posed and lit, waiting to be seen. For five
Caravaggio Was Born 455 Years Ago Today. His Nude Cupid Was Kept Behind a Curtain.
In 1602 the banker Vincenzo Giustiniani commissioned a painting of Cupid and then hid it. The canvas hung behind a
Alexandre Cabanel Was Born 203 Years Ago Today. His ‘Birth of Venus’ Is the Nude the Academy Called Perfection.
Alexandre Cabanel was born in Montpellier on September 28, 1823, 203 years ago today. For three decades he was the
Edgar Degas Died 109 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude as a Private, Unwatched Body.
Edgar Degas died in Paris on September 27, 1917, at the age of 83. By then his eyesight had failed
Théodore Géricault Was Born 235 Years Ago Today. The Raft of the Medusa Turned the Nude Into a Person.
Théodore Géricault was born on September 26, 1791, in Rouen, and died at thirty-two, having painted one canvas that changed
Henri Lebasque Was Born 161 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude as Warm Light and Quiet Intimacy.
On September 25, 1865, a painter was born in the Loire Valley who would spend his life convincing the art
Antoine-Louis Barye Was Born 230 Years Ago Today. He Sculpted Lions, but His Masterpiece Was a Naked Man.
Antoine-Louis Barye is remembered as the man who sculpted lions. His Lion Crushing a Serpent made his name in 1832,
Suzanne Valadon Was Born 161 Years Ago Today. The Model Who Took the Brush and Painted the Nude From the Inside.
Before Suzanne Valadon painted the nude, she was the nude. She arrived in Montmartre as a teenager, the illegitimate daughter