Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

His long struggle with physical passion was almost over, and, as with many other great sensualists, its place had been taken by an obsession with death.

Two pictures painted in the year 1907 can conveniently be taken as the starting point of twentieth-century art. They are Matisse's Blue Nude and Picasso's Demo…

Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Gr…