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