James Tissot Was Born 190 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Belle Époque Woman and the Nude Beneath Her Layers.
James Tissot was born on October 15, 1836, in the port city of Nantes, and died in 1902 as the
Adolphe Monticelli Was Born 202 Years Ago Today. He Dissolved the Nude Into Pure Color.
Adolphe Monticelli was born in Marseille on this day in 1824. For two decades before the Impressionists held their first
Antonio Canova Died 204 Years Ago Today. He Made Marble Feel Like Living Flesh.
Antonio Canova, the most celebrated sculptor of his age, died in Venice on October 13, 1822. Two centuries later, visitors
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Died 151 Years Ago Today. He Put Dancing Nudes on the Paris Opera.
On October 12, 1875, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux died at a château outside Paris, aged 48. Six years earlier he had given
Maurice de Vlaminck Died 68 Years Ago Today. Fauvism Set the Nude’s Color Free.
Sixty-eight years ago today, on 11 October 1958, Maurice de Vlaminck died at eighty-two. He had been the wildest of
Alberto Giacometti Was Born 125 Years Ago Today. He Whittled the Nude Down to a Thin Survivor.
Alberto Giacometti was born on October 10, 1901, in Borgonovo, a Swiss mountain village near the Italian border. Across the
Simeon Solomon Was Born 186 Years Ago Today. He Invented the Androgynous Nude.
Simeon Solomon was born in London on 9 October 1840, and his family saw the gift early. By his teens
Théodore Chassériau Died 170 Years Ago Today. At 37, He Pointed the Nude Toward Symbolism.
On October 8, 1856, Théodore Chassériau died in Paris at the age of thirty-seven. He left behind a mural cycle
Pygmalion and Galatea: The Artist Who Fell in Love With His Own Nude
Every culture that has painted the naked body has had to answer one question first: where did the nude come
The Fall of Man: How Genesis Gave Artists Permission to Paint the Nude
The first nudes in Western art were already ashamed. Long before the reclining Venus or the odalisque, before the life