Jean-Honoré Fragonard Died 220 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude as Pure, Fleeting Pleasure.
The French Revolution ended a great deal: the monarchy, the old aristocracy, and an entire way of picturing the body. […]
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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