Edmonia Lewis Died 119 Years Ago Today. The Death of Cleopatra Made the Female Body Her Own.
Edmonia Lewis died in London on September 17, 1907, and the art world spent the next century forgetting her. She
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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
François Girardon Died 311 Years Ago Today. He Sculpted the Sun King’s Naked Majesty Into Marble.
On September 1, 1715, François Girardon died in Paris at eighty-seven. He had spent five decades giving Louis XIV’s Versailles
The Unfinished Body: Michelangelo’s Slaves and the Beauty of Becoming
There is a room in Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia where four figures struggle to be born. They emerge from rough stone
James Pradier Was Born 236 Years Ago Today. His Satyr and Bacchante Made the Louvre Blush.
236 years ago today, a Swiss-born sculptor arrived in Paris carrying a chisel and a secret. He would go on