michalkarmazon: In a group portrait by Johann Zoffany, “The Academicians of the Royal Academy” (1771-2), members are shown gathered around a nude male model at a time when women were excluded from such training in order to protect their modesty.

michalkarmazon: In a group portrait by Johann Zoffany, “The Academicians of the Royal Academy” (1771-2), members are shown gathered around a nude male model at a time when women were excluded from such training in order to protect their modesty.

tags: The gilded shell, painting,art,

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