BORDEL   BROTHEL   BORDELLO
The brothel exists, as far as we know, from more than 4.000 years!
In the city of Uruk, Sumerian priests housed women to serve sex and pleasures.
In later Europe, the ancient Rome and Greece had also brothels. And only in the early part of the 19th Century legal brothels apear in France, the "maison close".
At the same time, brothels were no secret in the USA.
In Chine and Japon the prostitution houses have been used since the ancient times. Houses with women not only for sex but also  dancing and singing.
Brothels inspired several artists from everywhere. It was difficult for me to choose a few  of those fabulous paintings, portraits of the life in those houses and, of course, the beauty and sensuality of those women.

Arturo Souto 1902-1964 Spain

Arturo Souto brothel 1932

Carlo Jean Jacques 1943-1990 Haiti

Clement Serveau 1886-1972

Constantin Guys 1802-1892 France  Drawing

Costa Araujo 1947, Portugal

Edgar Degas 1834-1917  France

Edgar Degas oil painting

Edvard Munch 1863-1944  Norway

Joseph Lorusso 1966 Chicago, USA

Lee Durbin California, USA

Marcel Janco, 1895-1984  Romania

Picasso, 1881-1973  Spain

Toulouse Lautrec   "Rue des Moulins, the medical inspection", 1894

Trevor Moffitt 1936-2006 New Zealand

Vladimir Lyubarov 1944  Russia