Month: June 2022
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George Bellows: Last stop, 59th Street
“Bellows paints the city in undress,” grumbled the New York Daily News and they were right. Did the artist’s fidelity to the hard truth about urbanization interfere with his ability to create beautiful works of art?
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Leonardo’s brazenly feminist portrait
During the Italian Renaissance, women were portrayed as ideals, symbols, and allegories — even in their own portraits. Then one day Leonardo da Vinci said goodbye to all that.