The Male Nude in Western Art: From Classical Ideal to the Gaze Problem
\n Walk through any major museum and you will see them: marble gods with perfect abdomens, bronze athletes caught mid-throw, […]
Art History
Summer Solstice and the Nude: How Three Artists Captured the Body in Pure Light
Summer Solstice and the Nude: How Three Artists Captured the Body in Pure Light Today is the summer solstice —
The Body Under the Skin: How Renaissance Anatomists Forged a New Vision of the Nude
Before the Scalpel, the Body Was a Symbol \n For centuries before the Renaissance, the nude human figure in Western
Joseph-Marie Vien Was Born 310 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Between Rococo and Revolution.
A Forgotten Bridge Between Two Worlds \n If you know the name Joseph-Marie Vien at all, it’s probably as the
Edward Burne-Jones Died 128 Years Ago Today. The Pre-Raphaelite Visionary Who Made the Nude Ethereal.
\n On June 17, 1898 \u2014 128 years ago today \u2014 Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones died at his London home,
The Unfinished Body: Michelangelo’s Slaves and the Beauty of Becoming
There is a room in Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia where four figures struggle to be born. They emerge from rough stone
The Reclining Nude: How Three Paintings Changed the Way We See the Body Forever
The Reclining Nude: How Three Paintings Changed the Way We See the Body Forever \n\n There is a pose so
Egon Schiele Was Born 136 Years Ago Today. His Nudes Were Called Pornography. Now They’re Called Masterpieces.
Egon Schiele was born on June 12, 1890, in Tulln, Austria. He died 28 years later during the Spanish flu