In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

Roman museums are among the most elegantly designed ... and the marble Dying Gaul and Capitoline Venus. And while the Temple of Jupiter was razed by looters in the fifth and sixth centuries ...

The work lays bare connections across history and mythology between women and monstrosity ... depicts an Indian Devata perched atop a Greco-Roman Venus, the two women entwined in a sensual embrace.

Heroine of Art,” at the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.

Marcia Marcus passed away this month at age 97. Her works go on view along Alice Neel and Sylvia Sleigh at Levy Gorvy Dayan.

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