May 14, 1863: The Salon des Refusés Opened — and Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe Made the Nude Modern Whether Paris Liked It or Not
On May 14, 1863, Emperor Napoleon III did something no French sovereign had done before: he opened a gallery of […]
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Georges Braque Was Born 144 Years Ago Today. How His ‘Large Nude’ Smashed the Classical Figure and Built Modern Art.
Georges Braque was born on May 13, 1882 — 144 years ago today. Though history remembers him as the co-inventor
Jean-Léon Gérôme Was Born 202 Years Ago Today. The Academic Master Who Turned the Female Nude Into High Spectacle.
“ On May 11, 1824, Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me was born in the small French town of Vesoul. By the time he
On This Day in 1508, Michelangelo Began the Sistine Chapel Ceiling — and Changed How We See the Nude Body Forever
On May 10, 1508, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni received 500 papal ducats from Pope Julius II and recorded in
Paul Gauguin Died 123 Years Ago Today. His Tahitian Nudes Are the Most Controversial Body in Modern Art.
Paul Gauguin died 123 years ago today on May 8, 1903. His Tahitian nudes remain the most controversial body of work in modern art—and that tension between beauty and exploitation is exactly why they matter.
Konstantin Somov Died 87 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude a Weapon Against Russian Censorship.
May 6, 1939 — Paris, France. On this day, Konstantin Andreyevich Somov died at the age of 69, an exile
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Was Born Today, 146 Years Ago. He Made the Nude the Weapon That Broke German Art.
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Born Today in Art History: Philip Hermogenes Calderon and the Nude Saint That Shocked Victorian England (May 3, 1833)
On May 3, 1833, the British painter Philip Hermogenes Calderon was born in Poitiers, France to a Spanish father and
This Week in Nude Art History: When America Put a Nude Goddess on Top of Chicago — and the Country Lost Its Mind
# This Week in Nude Art History: When America Put a Nude Goddess on Top of Chicago — and the