Why Art History Is Full of People Taking Baths - Artsy

Paul Cézanne
The Large Bathers, 1900–06
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Why Art History Is Full of People Taking Baths - Artsy: It’s one of the most common human activities—yet artists from the ancient Greeks to the Surrealists and beyond have been fascinated by bathing.

The figure of the bather is one of the most common visual tropes in Western art history. From ancient Athens to 1920s Paris and beyond, painters and sculptors have presented bathing in a variety of ways with myriad different aims, whether instructional, titillating, or allegorical...

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