Dorothea Tanning Was Born 116 Years Ago Today. She Made the Female Body a Door to Another World.
Dorothea Tanning was born on August 25, 1910, in Galesburg, Illinois. She lived 101 years and spent nearly all of
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Lavinia Fontana Was Born 474 Years Ago Today. The First Professional Woman Painter Made Her Name on the Nude She Was Never Allowed to Study.
Four hundred and seventy-four years ago today, Lavinia Fontana was born in Bologna. Her father, the Mannerist painter Prospero Fontana,
Francesco Albani Was Born 448 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude as a Gentle Paradise.
Scholars have never fully settled whether Francesco Albani was born on the 17th of March or the 17th of August
Jean Dubuffet Was Born 125 Years Ago Today. His Corps de Dames Made the Female Nude Brutal — and That Was the Point.
Jean Dubuffet was born on this day, July 31, 1901, in Le Havre. The son of wine merchants, he would
Vincent van Gogh Died 136 Years Ago Today. What He Taught Us About the Human Body.
Vincent van Gogh died on July 29, 1890 — 136 years ago today. He was 37. The mythology is familiar:
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
Edgar Degas Was Born 192 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Body the Way It Actually Looks When No One’s Watching.
Edgar Degas Was Born 192 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Body the Way It Actually Looks When No
Gustav Klimt Was Born 164 Years Ago Today. He Turned the Nude Into Gold.
When Gustav Klimt died in February 1918, the Spanish flu took him at fifty-five. In his studio, among the half-finished
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Frida Kahlo Died 72 Years Ago Today. She Turned the Nude Body Into the Most Honest Autobiography Ever Painted.
On July 13, 1954, Frida Kahlo died in the same blue house in Coyoacán where she had been born 47
Amedeo Modigliani Was Born 142 Years Ago Today. His Nudes Got Him Arrested — and Made Him Immortal.
The Nudes That Got Modigliani Arrested \n\n On December 3, 1917, the Berthe Weill Gallery in Paris opened a solo