Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Desmarais' 1787 painting The Shepherd Paris in Masculin / Masculin at Musée d'Orsay.
So let's quell the complaints about Abercrombie creating the six-pack or inventing the culture of body fascism. Bruce Weber's photos continue an idealized, ripped line of beauty from the Greeks to the Renaissance to the Neoclassicists to Wilhelm von Gloeden to Art Deco to the nonstop parade of perfection launched by List and Lynes and boosted in a sexualized stratosphere by Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland, now at MOCA.
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