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
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
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.