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Nymphs

The Origin of Nymphs

by Marina Rybak

La Grande Odalisque and The Turkish Bath by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The last major Neoclassicist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 –1867) has acknowledged once that he was not an innovator, yet his portrait paintings and drawings are regarded as some of the finest in French history. Influential in the evolution of such revered artists like Degas, Matisse and Picasso, Ingres is on the list of my … Read More


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