"And I've realized, as a tooth-smiler, I'm violating every rule of decorum, at least through the nineteenth century."
Art historian Kathy Galitz on the meaning behind the smile.
Connections: Smile
Art historian Kathy Galitz on the meaning behind the smile.
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John Singer Sargent
1897
Gilbert Stuart
begun 1795
Southern Cambodia
7th century
Cypriot
ca. 475–450 BCE
Greek, Attic
ca. 590–580 BCE
Remojadas artist(s)
600–1000 CE
Jean Honoré Fragonard
early 1770s
Frans Hals
1623
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1823
Sir Thomas Lawrence
1823
French
ca. 1250
Seydou Keïta
1956, printed 1997