Anthony van Dyck Was Born Today, 427 Years Ago. He Made the Body the Foundation of Everything — Then Dressed It Up.
Anthony van Dyck was born on this day in 1599, in Antwerp. He died at forty-two. In between, he became […]
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Edward Poynter Was Born Today, 190 Years Ago. He Made the Nude Respectable — by Making It Precise.
Edward John Poynter was born on this day in 1836 — in Paris, of all places, to English parents who
Rosa Bonheur Was Born Today, 204 Years Ago. She Never Painted a Nude — But She Changed Who Gets to Look at Bodies.
On March 16, 1822, in Bordeaux, France, a girl was born who would become the most commercially successful female painter
Ferdinand Hodler: The Swiss Master Who Made Nudity Philosophical
On March 14, 1853, Ferdinand Hodler was born in Bern, Switzerland — a man who would become one of Europe’s