Le corps des femmes. Ce que les artistes ont voulu faire de nous. beaux arts thanks to its collections from

thanks to its collections from the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro

the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne has chosen to highlight one of the most significant episodes of the turn of the 19th century: the contribution of the Viennese art scene to the birth of modern art

established himself as one of the central figures in the development of erotic art in the 18th century

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Le corps des femmes. Ce que les artistes ont voulu faire de nous. beaux arts thanks to its collections fromSince prehistory, with the arrival of the Hottentot arrivals, women have been the center and medium of all fantasies. Goddess or whore, virgin or witch, virago or odalisque, they have been staged, illuminated, overexposed: their bodies, all parts of them, and their faces, through an essentially masculine gaze. The first part of this book, The Woman Looked at, goes up to the moment when Courbet and Manet revolutionized the gaze, the second, The Women