The Dead Christ and the Angels

Looking at Men is about sex, power and death. It traces the modern histories of, and develops theories on, the reflexive relationship between art and medicine in the long nineteenth century through the shared lens of anatomical science. In ideological systems in which the male body plays a central role – whether as God’s earthly incarnation or as the epitome of a humanist ideal...

IF SOCIETY COLUMNISTS found humor in the topic of the legitimation of bastard children, it...

~Those writers who believe that Manet’s subject matter was just a pretext for painting are most puzzled by his forays into the realm of ‘history painting’ since these generally involved subjects which Manet could not have seen in everyday life, and since they seemed, in some ways, to be concessions to academic requirements. While it...

~Manet probably painted Victorine Meurent for the first time in 1862. The earliest painting of her, which he never exhibited, was arguably the only time he painted her as “herself” (fig. 63). Of the large-scale, full-length paintings in which she later figured, some represented her in modern...