It is considered to this day to be one of the most influencial events in the history of American art, with over 300 European and American artists exhibiting over 1,000 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts.
Duchamp's work was the most talked about painting in the show. No doubt alot of the controversy was in trying to locate the nude. Regrettably, there was no nude to be found. This was Cubism at its finest. This study of motion was also reflected in a sculpture by Italian futurist Umberto Boccioni with "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913).
"Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" was first purchased from the Armory Show by Frederic C. Torrey of San Francisco. It now hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art where Boccioni's amazing sculpture can also be seen.
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Best known is Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Italian Renaissance artist. Born seven years after Michelangelo´s death, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was to become an extraordinary Italian Baroque artist and the 'bad boy' in the history of art.
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