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
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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Died 241 Years Ago Today. His Nude Voltaire Made the Enlightenment Strip Naked.
Two hundred and forty-one years ago today, on August 20, 1785, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle died in Paris at seventy-one. He was
Guido Reni Died 384 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Body as a Perfect, Serene Ideal.
In 1642, in the city where he had spent most of his life, Guido Reni died at the age of
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,
The Body in Fragments: Why the Greatest Nudes in Art History Were Left Unfinished
The Belvedere Torso has no head. No arms. No legs below the knees. It sits in the Vatican Museums —
Andy Warhol Was Born 98 Years Ago Today. His Nudes Changed What the Body Means in Art.
Before the soup cans and the Brillo boxes and the Marilyns, Andy Warhol drew bodies. In the 1950s, as a
The Vanishing Male Nude: How Art History’s Most Important Body Became Its Most Invisible
Walk through any major museum and count the nudes. If you started in the Greek and Roman galleries, you would
Thomas Eakins Was Born 182 Years Ago Today. He Risked Everything to Paint the Nude as Truth.
Thomas Eakins was born on July 25, 1844, in Philadelphia, and 182 years later, we still haven’t caught up to
Lovis Corinth Was Born 168 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Body as a Battlefield.
When we talk about the nude in Western art, we tend to reach for words like ideal, beauty, perfection. Greek
The Male Nude: Why Art History Forgot Half the Body
The Default Nude If I say "the nude in art," what comes to mind? A reclining Venus. A bathing woman.