Aubrey Beardsley Was Born 154 Years Ago Today. His Erotic Nudes Defined the Decadent 1890s.
Aubrey Beardsley was born on August 21, 1872, in Brighton, England, and died at twenty-five, leaving behind a body of […]
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Simeon Solomon Died 121 Years Ago Today. He Painted Same-Sex Desire Into the Pre-Raphaelite Nude, and It Cost Him Everything.
On August 14, 1905, the painter Simeon Solomon died in London at sixty-four, destitute and largely forgotten. Thirty years earlier,
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David Hockney Was Born 89 Years Ago Today. He Taught Us the Nude Body Is a Celebration.
The boy from Bradford who found the body in California \n\n David Hockney was born on July 9, 1937, in
Edward Burne-Jones Died 128 Years Ago Today. The Pre-Raphaelite Visionary Who Made the Nude Ethereal.
\n On June 17, 1898 \u2014 128 years ago today \u2014 Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones died at his London home,
William Morris Was Born Today, 192 Years Ago. He Only Painted One Picture — and Spent His Life Proving the Body Is Where All Design Begins.
William Morris was born on this day in 1834. He died in 1896 at sixty-two, exhausted and furious, having spent