Fra Bartolomeo Was Born Today, 554 Years Ago. He Burned His Own Nude Drawings — and Then Painted One So Beautiful It Had to Be Hidden.
On this day, 554 years ago, a boy was born in Savignano di Prato who would become one of the […]
Edward Steichen Was Born Today, 147 Years Ago. He Made the Camera See the Body the Way Only Painting Could.
Edward Steichen was born today, 147 years ago, in a stone house in the village of Bivange, Luxembourg. He would
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld Was Born Today, 232 Years Ago. He Made the Body a Language — Then Gave It to God.
Two hundred and thirty-two years ago today, in Leipzig, a boy was born into a family of artists. His father
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Died Today, 107 Years Ago. He Made the Body an Architecture of Feeling — Then the World Broke Him.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck died on this day in 1919. He was 38 years old. He had just been elected to the
William Morris Was Born Today, 192 Years Ago. He Only Painted One Picture — and Spent His Life Proving the Body Is Where All Design Begins.
William Morris was born on this day in 1834. He died in 1896 at sixty-two, exhausted and furious, having spent
Juan Gris Was Born Today, 139 Years Ago. He Shattered the Body — and Made It Beautiful.
On this day in 1887, José Victoriano González-Pérez was born in Madrid. The world would know him as Juan Gris
Anthony van Dyck Was Born Today, 427 Years Ago. He Made the Body the Foundation of Everything — Then Dressed It Up.
Anthony van Dyck was born on this day in 1599, in Antwerp. He died at forty-two. In between, he became
Hans Hofmann Was Born Today, 146 Years Ago. He Taught America How to See the Body — Then Blew It Apart.
On March 21, 1880, in Weißenburg, Bavaria, a boy was born who would spend his first decades building things: electromagnetic
Edward Poynter Was Born Today, 190 Years Ago. He Made the Nude Respectable — by Making It Precise.
Edward John Poynter was born on this day in 1836 — in Paris, of all places, to English parents who
Albert Pinkham Ryder Was Born Today, 179 Years Ago. His Paintings Are Still Drying.
Albert Pinkham Ryder was born on this day in 1847, in a whaling port on the Massachusetts coast. He would