In the last articles about the evolution of the bathroom we focused on the explanation of how this space has changed over time.

In this post we present a collection of the main works of art that depict the story of the bathroom of different historical periods, according to the vision of the artists.

Tintoretto

Tintoretto painted a corner of the garden which houses an elegant outdoor bathroom. In the representation of Susanna and the Elders, name of the painting examined, you can see how the bathroom becomes a public place and also refined.

Rembrandt

In the middle of ‘600 the look of the bathroom is simple and bare. In the painting Betsabea in the bathroom it is possible to notice a first evolution in the story of the bathroom. It returns in a domestic and reserved space. The picture is characterized by dark tones with the protagonist in clear contrast, as if to subtly hide the surrounding bathroom.

Jean Léon Gérôme

After 200 years, in the peak of ‘800, an artistic school deeply-rooted to the neoclassical method, started to paint the the space of the bathroom in a different way, in oriental style.

Jean Léon Gérôme in one of the main exponent of this trend. In the painting “Moorish Bath” you can admire an indigenous woman intent to wash a fair-skinned woman in a structure very similar to the harem pools.

Roy Lichtenstein

Also in Pop Art the space of bathroom was represented. Roy Lichtenstein in his painting “ Woman at bathroom” expressed in the best way as possible the bathroom in cartoony style giving the idea of an advertising of bathroom fixture.