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When does the feeling of intimacy arise in art? What painters began to represent cosy, warm and intimate spaces?. It was probably Vermeer, De Hooch and other Dutch Golden Age painters who first transferred these private interiors to their canvases. But if the Dutch gave the starting signal, after them, numerous artists were going to participate in this search for the intimate. From the warm interiors of Holland he went to the cold and pale ones of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi; the Swiss Felix Vallotton discovered in his paintings what was disturbing in the bourgeois spaces of European cities at the beginning of the 20th century; the surrealists inquired into the dreamed interiors, in which the walls are deformed and the floors open up under our feet; Edward Hopper dissected with the precision of a surgeon the anonymous spaces of non-places: hotels and train compartments. Other artists, such as Degas and Bonnard, threw the bathroom doors wide open, while later in this century, the bedroom and the bed itself revealed all their secrets in the interpretations of Tracey Emin and Sophie Calle. Privacy is a cultural product that has declined in many ways over the centuries. With rigor and passion, Charo Crego reveals to us in Inside this unusual story of intimacy in art.