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,