Agostino Carracci Was Born 469 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude the First Lesson of Every Artist.
Annibale Carracci gets the glory. His brother Agostino, born in Bologna on August 16, 1557, built the system. Together with […]
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René Magritte Died 59 Years Ago Today. His Surrealist Nudes Made the Body Strange Again.
René Magritte died on August 15, 1967, in Brussels, aged 68. Fifty-nine years later he remains the rare painter whose
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,
George Bellows Was Born 144 Years Ago Today. He Painted the American Body as It Actually Was.
George Wesley Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio, on August 12, 1882. He died of a ruptured appendix in January
August 10, 1793: The Louvre Opened to the Public — and Transformed Who Gets to See the Naked Body in Art
On August 10, 1793 — 233 years ago today — the Louvre opened its doors to the public for the
Emil Nolde Was Born 159 Years Ago Today. His Nudes Made the Body Raw, Primal, and Electric.
On August 7, 1867, a boy named Emil Hansen was born in the village of Nolde, in what was then
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
Ilya Repin Was Born 182 Years Ago Today. Before the Barge Haulers, There Was the Nude.
Ilya Repin was born on this day, August 5, 1844, in the small Ukrainian town of Chuhuiv. He would become
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
Henry Moore Was Born 128 Years Ago Today. How His Reclining Nudes Changed What a Human Body Could Be.
On July 30, 1898, a boy was born in a cramped miner’s cottage in Castleford, Yorkshire, who would spend the