From the archive · Saturday, 5 September 2026

The daily pick

One work a day, drawn from the 3,426 works in the library with a copy you can open — the same one for everybody, and a different one tomorrow.

Video2014

A brief history of representing the body in Western sculpture

Smarthistory

Traces the sculpted body from Egyptian frontality to modernist abstraction, arguing each shift follows a change in what the figure was for rather than in technical ability.

Level: Entry
Access: Free
Length: —
Copy: link checked 17 Sept 2026
Filed under: Sculpture & Three-Dimensional Art

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