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
Anselm Feuerbach Was Born 197 Years Ago Today. He Chased the Classical Nude to Rome.
Anselm Feuerbach was born in Speyer on September 12, 1829, into a family that already carried the weight of German
Rembrandt’s Bathsheba: The Nude That Refused to Flatter
For three hundred years, the nude in Western art had one job: to flatter. Painters gave the gods perfect limbs,
Marianne von Werefkin Was Born 166 Years Ago Today. The Expressionist Who Painted the Body as Inner Vision.
Marianne von Werefkin was born in Tula, Russia, on September 10, 1860, the daughter of a general in the Imperial
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Died 125 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Without Fantasy or Shame.
For most of Western art history, the nude needed an alibi. A naked woman on canvas was Venus rising from
Michelangelo’s David Was Unveiled 522 Years Ago Today. The Nude That Made Florence Defiant.
On September 8, 1504, a seventeen-foot statue of a naked boy rolled through the streets of Florence on greased logs
Alexandre Falguière Was Born 195 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude an Ideal, Then Cast It From a Living Woman.
Alexandre Falguière was born 195 years ago today in Toulouse, and for three decades he was the French art establishment’s
The Venus Pudica: How Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos Invented the Pose That Defined the Female Nude
Around 350 BCE, an Athenian sculptor named Praxiteles did something no Greek artist had dared. He carved a goddess, Aphrodite,