I just googled “woman surrounded by men,” because I wanted to capture that feeling of being a woman online, and one of the images that popped up was that classic painting from my Twitter ...

Have you ever looked at a female subject in an old painting thought to yourself “same girl” as the (clearly) beleaguered woman quietly seethes in the company of leering men standing way too close?

“Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men” fixes that ... Caillebotte has jettisoned the usual classical trappings of Greek and Roman heroes, which typically cloak male nudes in sober history ...

in which young Black men appear in poses most associated with paintings of kings and generals. Showing his would-be subjects a book full of classical paintings to draw inspiration from ...