This Painter Suffered a 20th-Century Damnatio Memoriae...

John William Godward (1861-1922) was an English painter who focused on Neoclassical art. At the turn of the 20th century, his art became unpopular and he took drastic measures a few decades later.

How was this little-known English Neoclassical painter? And why does his art deserved just a little more recognition than what it got in the early 1900s? Discover his story in this video.

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