Alessandro Allori Died 419 Years Ago Today. The Mannerist Who Turned the Nude Into Courtly Perfection.
When Alessandro Allori died in Florence on September 22, 1607, the nude in Western art stood at a crossroads. Caravaggio
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The Artist’s Model: The Forgotten Body Behind Every Famous Nude
Every nude in the canon has two authors, and art history remembered only one. We know who held the brush.
Théodore Chassériau Was Born 207 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Caught Between Two Worlds.
Théodore Chassériau was born on September 20, 1819, in Samaná, in what is now the Dominican Republic. Thirty-seven years later
Zinaida Serebriakova Died 59 Years Ago Today. She Painted the Female Nude Through a Woman’s Eyes.
Zinaida Serebriakova died in Paris on September 19, 1967, at the age of eighty-two. She left behind a life cut
Diana and Actaeon: The Nude That Punished the Male Gaze
Ovid told the story in the Metamorphoses two thousand years ago, and it has never stopped troubling painters. Actaeon, a
Edmonia Lewis Died 119 Years Ago Today. The Death of Cleopatra Made the Female Body Her Own.
Edmonia Lewis died in London on September 17, 1907, and the art world spent the next century forgetting her. She
The Pregnant Nude: The Body Art History Refused to See
For two and a half thousand years, artists painted the female nude in almost every position a body can hold.
Fernando Botero Died 3 Years Ago Today. He Made the Voluptuous Body a Monument.
Fernando Botero died on September 15, 2023, at the age of 91. For more than six decades he painted, drew,
Richard Gerstl Was Born 143 Years Ago Today. His Nude Self-Portrait Laid the Body Bare Like Nothing Before It.
On September 14, 1883, Richard Gerstl was born into a prosperous Jewish merchant family in Vienna. He died twenty-five years
Andrea Mantegna Died 520 Years Ago Today. He Carved the Nude Out of Paint.
Andrea Mantegna died on September 13, 1506, at around seventy-five, in the city of Mantua where he had spent the