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Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English and director of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University. Her books include Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names, Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature and Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel (Princeton).

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How Famous Paintings Get (Wrong) Names

From Cezanne to Rembrandt, paintings by famous artists all too often have names that don’t really match the work. How does this happen?

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