Today is the birthday of French painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917), often associated with, but not quite of the impressionists. Over half of the paintings in Degas’s oeuvre depict female ballet dancers hard at work: stretching, rehearsing, performing. You might think that irrelevant to the usual themes of this blog, but you’d be wrong! Robert C. Allen, in his terrific […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:27AM on July 19, 2013