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 […]
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Alphonse Mucha Was Born 166 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude Body Into Ornament — and Changed Art Forever.
On this day in 1860, in the small Moravian town of Ivančice, a boy was born who would grow up
Edward Hopper Was Born 144 Years Ago Today. He Reinvented the Nude as a Portrait of American Loneliness.
On July 22, 1882, in the shipbuilding town of Nyack, New York, Edward Hopper was born. He would become the
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
Max Liebermann Was Born 179 Years Ago Today. He Moved the Nude Body from the Salon to the Seashore.
If you know Max Liebermann, you probably know him as the painter of Berlin’s bourgeoisie — the man who chronicled
Edgar Degas Was Born 192 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Body the Way It Actually Looks When No One’s Watching.
Edgar Degas Was Born 192 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude Body the Way It Actually Looks When No
Camille Corot Was Born 230 Years Ago Today. He Was France’s Greatest Landscape Painter — But His Secret Nudes Were His Real Masterpieces.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot \u2014 born 230 years ago today, on July 16, 1796 \u2014 is remembered as the master of the
Rembrandt Was Born 420 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude Body Human for the First Time.
Rembrandt van Rijn was born 420 years ago today, on July 15, 1606, in Leiden. Four centuries and two decades
Gustav Klimt Was Born 164 Years Ago Today. He Turned the Nude Into Gold.
When Gustav Klimt died in February 1918, the Spanish flu took him at fifty-five. In his studio, among the half-finished
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Frida Kahlo Died 72 Years Ago Today. She Turned the Nude Body Into the Most Honest Autobiography Ever Painted.
On July 13, 1954, Frida Kahlo died in the same blue house in Coyoacán where she had been born 47