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What Legendary 19th-Century Women Really Looked Like vs. Their Idealized Paintings

As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...
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19th century Louisiana painters and paintings from the collection of W.E. Groves. Martin and Margaret Wiesendanger, curators of the collection

19TH CENTURY LOUISIANA PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF WE GROVES MARTIN AND MARGARET WIESENDANGER CURATORS OF THE COLLECTION ...
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Tropical; tropical scenes by the 19th century painters of California

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Oakland Museum, Oct. 5-Nov. 14, 1971, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dec. 7, 1971-Jan. 23, 1972, and the E. B. Crocker Art ...
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Domestic Interior Paintings Show How the 1% Lived in the 19th Century

Rudolf von Alt, “The Japanese Salon, Villa Hügel, Heitzing, Vienna” (1855) (all photos by Matt Flynn, courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) “The paintings were usually made after a room ...
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A Guide to the 19th-Century Artists' Graves of New York City

Sunset at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Cemeteries are like indexes of a city’s history, listing the names of its deceased from famous to forgotten in an ...
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Filling a gap in history: WAM acquires works by 19th-century Black artists

Editor's Note: Worcester Living stories are written far in advance of publication. In the time since this story was written, Natalia Ángeles Vieyra, associate curator for American Art, has left ...
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Chasing after Juan Luna and other 19th-century Filipino painters in Spain

Juan Luna's appealing portrait of Maria Benlliure, around three years of age. Signed, dated 1884, and dedicated to the subject. A riverscape by Juan Luna, Casa-Museo Benlliure, Valencia A small ...