Focus on The Sin (Stuck) and explore the History.
A precursor to this painting was Stuck's drawing, History of the Allegories and Emblems, published in 1884. It shows a female figure standing between columns with Doric capitals. Half-columns with Doric capitals also form the sides of the gilded architectural frame for this later 1893 painting. It was during this time that an erotic type of woman, the femme fatale, was emerging  with wide eyes, skimpy late 19th-century clothing and a seductive pose as Stuck's trademark. The motif was conceived as a development of Stuck's 1889 painting Sensuality (Die Sinnlichkeit). The Sin was first exhibited in 1893, at the inaugural exhibition of the Munich Secession, where it caused a sensation. It was bought by the Neue Pinakothek in Munich and became a critical and commercial breakthrough for Stuck. It has since become an emblematic painting for the symbolist movement. In 1899 in Vienna it received the "state gold medal" intended for foreign artists. In the Villa Stuck, completed in 1898, the painting has a special meaning. Since 1901, a version of The Sin with a gold frame has hung on a kind of "altar" in the then Stuck's studio. It was considered the "spatial and ideal center of the house".
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