From Rebecca Wheeler at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, this gigantic neo-Classical painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905): (#1) Dante et Virgile (en enfers) / La Barque de Dante (1850) Nasty, brutish, and naked. From Wikipedia: Dante and Virgil is a 1850 [neo-Classical] oil on canvas painting [281 cm × 225 cm (111 in × 89 in)] by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is presently … Continue reading Annals of shirtlessness: French neo-Classicism