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Exhibition Opening Lecture: To Live One’s Life as a Work of Art at Yale
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenIn the closing decades of the 19th century, artists like John Singer Sargent, Edwin Austin Abbey, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens created drawings and sketches that hearkened back to the Italian Renaissance. The men depicted in these studies exist as descendants of Michelangelo’s muscular figures, while the women have been transformed into spiritualized and ethereal beings. The […]