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 […]
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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