Alphonse Mucha Was Born 166 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude Body Into Ornament — and Changed Art Forever.
On this day in 1860, in the small Moravian town of Ivančice, a boy was born who would grow up […]
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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