Would Edgar Degas be so revered if, instead of ballerinas, he chosen to do dozens of works depicting Parisians killed by the cholera epidemics of the 19th century?
Would Raphael find the humor in this?
How Peter Paul Rubens would feel about being most well-known for having his name used to describe fat chicks?
Does this photo of Salvador Dali and Man Ray disturb you as much as it does me?
Why isn't Pierre-Auguste Renoir's lament to friend Frederic Bazille, "Triple shit! You are stark raving mad bastard!" appreciated as being one of history's great quotes? Just in case you're wondering, it was an expression of Renoir's horror at having learned of Bazille's enlistment into the French service upon the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Bazille was killed in battle, by the way.
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