Painted Lady: Muse or Mistress

Artists through the centuries have succeeded in adding to our imaginative vocabulary of female beauty – the richly colored paintings of the muse has its own glamour, a direct experience for the senses – but at times – with hints of scandal and eroticism as an obvious aspect of the experience.  

This slideshow with lecture will be a non-stop sequence of lovers and models in art whose musedom was either immortal or tragic.

View works by: Picasso, Modigliani, Rossetti, Von Dongen, Man Ray, Klimt, Warhol, Matisse, Sargent, Katz, Freud and more…