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Lady Lilith (c.1866)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith c.1866 Chalk on paper, 62 x 57 cm Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith 1867 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     See also: • Cornforth, Fanny (1835-1909) | Goethe,…

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Ritratto di donna (1570)

Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Lady, probably Camilla Martelli de’ Medici) 1570 Oil on canvas mounted on board, 68.6 x 59.1 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis

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Ritratto di dama (1520-1524)

Correggio (c.1489-1534) Ritratto di dama (Portrait of a Lady) 1520–1524 Oil on canvas, 103 × 87.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg A sensual version of Raphaelesque grace was produced by Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio, a painter who worked in Parma.…

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Lady Lilith (1867)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith 1867 Watercolor and gouache, 51.3 x 44 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Fascinated by women’s physical allure, Rossetti here imagines a legendary femme fatale as a self-absorbed nineteenth-century beauty who combs her hair…

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Jane Seymour, Queen of England

(c.1508–1637) Queen consort of England (1636–1637) Jane Seymour in Art: Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Jane Seymour c.1636–1637 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna    

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Portrait d’une jeune dame (c.1770-1772)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Portrait d’une jeune dame (Portrait of a Young Lady) c.1770–1772 Oil on canvas, 63 x 53 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection It has always been felt that the age of Louis XV finds its most characteristic…

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