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"  A new and eye-opening spin on today&amp;#039;s culture of retouching comes , a senior photo editor at TakePart. And it&amp;#039;s also a lovely lesson in art history. Wade&amp;#039;s thesis, in a nutshell: &amp;quot;Throughout history, painters from Titian to Rubens to Gauguin found beauty in the bodies of women who would never fit into a size 0. But what would these famous works of art look like were they to conform to today&amp;#039;s Photoshopped standards of beauty?&amp;quot; So with a digital paintbrush, Wade answered her own question \u2014 taking masterpieces from Botticelli (&amp;quot;The Birth of Venus,&amp;quot; pictured above), Titian, Gauguin, and more, and then whittling the painted figures down to the size you&amp;#039;d most likely find reflected in today&amp;#039;s media. &amp;quot;There may be something sacrilegious in that [process],&amp;quot; she writes, &amp;quot;but the same could be said for our contemporary ideas of beauty.&amp;quot; Some of the results are presented in GIF form below; seeing the before and after flipping like a switch is extra-jarring:  &amp;quot;Dana\u00EB With Eros,&amp;quot; painted by Titian in 1544.  &amp;quot;Nude Maya,&amp;quot; painted by Francisco Goya between 1797 and 1800.* *There&amp;#039;s a good chance Maya would also be shown sans pubic hair, also.  &amp;quot;Grande Odalisque,&amp;quot; painted by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres in 1814. To see more masterpieces retouched, .  Photo credit: courtesy of Lauren Wade / TakePart.com Related: The Truth About Retouching: One Model Speaks Out Related: A Better Way to Spend 10K: Two Besties Respond to the Recent Photo Retouching Drama in the Most Awesome Way From the editors of  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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