Prostitution in art, literature, music and film
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This page is a thematic exploration of prostitution in art[1][2], literature, music and film.
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In visual art
It is frequently repeated that artists' models have often been prostitutes.
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Italian Renaissane
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Northern Renaissane
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Dutch Golden Age painting
Brothel scenes were painted by the following Dutch Golden Age painters: Frans van Mieris the Elder, Gerard ter Borch, Jan Steen and Adriaen Brouwer. Perhaps the most famous painting of that school relating to prostitution is The Procuress by Johannes Vermeer.
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Modern art
One of the defining narrative elements of painting in modern art was portraying prostitutes and brothels sympathetically and compassionately.
- Olympia (1865) by Édouard Manet
- La fête de la patronne (ca. 1878-79), Trois filles assises de face[3] and Trois filles de dos by Degas
- The Brothel (1888) by Van Gogh
- Femme tirant sur son bas (1894), Au Salon de la rue des Moulins[4] (1894), La Visite médicale (ca 1894) and Le Divan (1894-1896) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- La Marchande de Plaisir (1902) by Hermann Vogel
- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) by Pablo Picasso
- Madeleine, Monologue et 9 dessins by Adolphe Willette
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In literature
- Whore dialogues
- Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camélias (1848)
- J.K. Huysmans's Marthe (1876)
- Emile Zola's Nana (1880)
- Guy de Maupassant's La Maison Tellier (1881)
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In music
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In film
- The Mother and the Whore (1973) (not about prostitution per se, more an exposé on the mother/whore complex)
- Salon Kitty (1976) by Tinto Brass
- Rue des plaisirs (2002) by Patrice Leconte with Laetitia Casta.
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See also
- List of fictional prostitutes and courtesans
- Thematic literary criticism
- Prostitution
- Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies
- Hooker with a heart of gold
- Whore dialogue
- perversion in art
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Bibliography
- Bordell und Boudoir, an exhibition catalogue edited by Götz Adriani
- Le Bordel en peinture, a book by Emmanuel Pernoud
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