Leighton's Erotic 'Flaming June' Both Fascinates and Irritates Art World – Repeating Islands
A review (and history) of the painting owned by Ponce's Museum of Art in Puerto Rico. ”Flaming June,” the iconic painting of the Victorian era by Sir Frederic Leighton (1830–1896), has followed a most unusual trajectory. Around the turn of the century, art collector Samuel Courtauld called it, “The most wonderful painting in existence ……
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