Edgar Degas, Woman Ironing (La Repasseuse), c. 1869, oil on canvas, 92.5 × 73.5 cm, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Neue Pinakothek, Munich, inv. 14310. Image credit: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Neue Pinakothek München, CC BY-SA 4.0. Laundry was an inescapable part of life in nineteenth-century Paris. Clothes and household linen were generally sent out to be cleaned,Continue reading “The Laundress: Between Social Type and Individual”
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The Depth of the Surface: Vittorio Corcos (1859–1933) and the Art of Appearance
Formation and the vero Vittorio Corcos enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in November 1875 and progressed with conspicuous ease. Admitted directly to Enrico Pollastrini’s drawing course, he passed his examinations and, in 1876–77, received a silver medal for a figure study copied dal vero. Despite this success, he soon became dissatisfiedContinue reading “The Depth of the Surface: Vittorio Corcos (1859–1933) and the Art of Appearance”
