Marianne von Werefkin Was Born 166 Years Ago Today. The Expressionist Who Painted the Body as Inner Vision.
Marianne von Werefkin was born in Tula, Russia, on September 10, 1860, the daughter of a general in the Imperial
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Dorothea Tanning Was Born 116 Years Ago Today. She Made the Female Body a Door to Another World.
Dorothea Tanning was born on August 25, 1910, in Galesburg, Illinois. She lived 101 years and spent nearly all of
Lavinia Fontana Was Born 474 Years Ago Today. The First Professional Woman Painter Made Her Name on the Nude She Was Never Allowed to Study.
Four hundred and seventy-four years ago today, Lavinia Fontana was born in Bologna. Her father, the Mannerist painter Prospero Fontana,
The 300-Year Ban: Why the Art Academy Wouldn’t Let Women Draw the Nude
The Zoffany Painting That Says It All In 1771, the German-born painter Johan Zoffany was commissioned to produce a group
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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
Artemisia Gentileschi Was Born 433 Years Ago Today. She Gave the Female Nude a Voice It Had Never Had Before.
On July 8, 1593, a girl was born in Rome who would do something no woman had done before: paint
Rosa Bonheur Was Born Today, 204 Years Ago. She Never Painted a Nude — But She Changed Who Gets to Look at Bodies.
On March 16, 1822, in Bordeaux, France, a girl was born who would become the most commercially successful female painter