WE have seen the statement signed “Parallax,” at page 236 of No. 38 of NATURE, and shall be obliged if you will afford us an opportunity of briefly saying in reply, that when we tried the ...

His voluptuous figures, both in paintings and in sculpture, portrayed the high and mighty as well as everyday people through an enlarging prism. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero at his studio ...

In the past, when peasants had to toil over the earth to keep from starving, a plump person was a rarity and was often complimented on his rotundity, for his bulk meant that he had been blessed ...

Fernando Botero, whose paintings of "rotund, inflated yet sensuous figures" made him one of the most famous Latin American artists of the 20th century, died in Monaco on 15 September at the age of ...

Also the nation's first Vice-President under George Washington, Adams was just 5ft 6ins and had a bit of excess puppy fat, leading to his nickname of "His Rotundity" - although this was more light ...