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Interior may refer to: Arts and media * Interior (Degas), ''Interior'' (Degas) (also known as ''The Rape''), painting by Edgar Degas * Interior (play), ''Interior'' (play), 1895 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck * The Interior (novel), ''The Interior'' (novel), by Lisa See * Interior design, the trade of designing an architectural interior Places * Interior, South Dakota * Interior, Washington * Interior Township, Michigan * British Columbia Interior, commonly known as "The Interior" Government agencies * Interior ministry, sometimes called the ministry of home affairs * United States Department of the Interior Other uses * Interior (topology), mathematical concept that includes, for example, the inside of a shape * Interior FC, a football team in Gambia See also * * * List of geographic interiors * Interiors (other) * Inter (other) * Inside (other) {{disambig, geo cs:Interiér sk:Interiér sr:Ентеријер sh:Enterijer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interior (Degas)
''Interior'' (french: Intérieur), also known as ''The Rape'' (french: Le Viol), is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painted in 1868–1869. Described as "the most puzzling of Degas's major works", it depicts a tense confrontation by lamplight between a man and a partially undressed woman. The theatrical character of the scene has led art historians to seek a literary source for the composition, but none of the sources proposed has met with universal acceptance. Even the painting's title is uncertain; acquaintances of the artist referred to it either as ''Le Viol'' or ''Intérieur'', and it was under the latter title that Degas exhibited it for the first time in 1905. The painting is housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Background Degas painted ''Interior'' at a time when his growing commitment to Realist visual arts, Realism had led him away from his earlier preoccupation with historical subjects such as ''Sémiramis Building Babylon'' (1860–1862), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |