It will be the style. It will be the origin or the historical period. The fact is that, before Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me, a French painter belonging to the neoclassical art movement, chose bathroom as one of his favorite subjects : the artist we are talking about is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres .<\/p>\n
The work of this week is \u201cThe turkish bath\u201d<\/strong> (Le Bain Turc , you can see it in the picture), the most famous painting by Ingres and made in 1862. This master piece has for him a very special meaning, since being re-defined as one of the ” intensely personal ” artist .<\/p>\n Ingres took three years of work to complete it. Originally square-shaped, was built on commission for the prince Napoleon. However he returned it to Ingres that transformed the circular shape and added some elements .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sensual, bright and veiled by a touch of evocative nostalgia<\/strong>: this is the turkish bath, a large harem peopled with odalisques relaxing and spending their time stretched , showing their voluptuous beauty. This work also hides many curiosities:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fonte immagine: Di Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – C2RMF: Galerie de tableaux en tr\u00e8s haute d\u00e9finition: image page, Pubblico dominio<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It will be the style. It will be the origin or the historical period. The fact is that, before Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me, a French painter belonging to the neoclassical art movement, chose bathroom as one of his favorite subjects : the artist we are talking about is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres . The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bathroom-evolution"],"yoast_head":"\n\n