/Degas' Bathers
The Quintessential Voyeur
By Christina Voss
In the nineteenth century, the Western European approach to the nude required elevation and idealization. A nude woman would be cast as a goddess, a nymph, or an allegory. We saw one of Ingres' nudes (or near-nudes) in the Valpincon Bather, and in spite of the painting's beauty, it took...
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