Friday, October 20, 2006

"Turkish Bath" (1862) by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Ingres aspired to Neoclassical perfection, but the pictorial traits which puzzled his contemporaries are now appreciated as evidence of a repressed sensuality, finding expression in Gothic arabesques of line and limpid skin tones, beneath immaculately painted surfaces.

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