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The Reader Wreathed with Flowers (Virgil’s Muse)

 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1845 Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Tsuki no kage shinobi-au yoru (Secretly Meeting at Night by the Light of the Moon)

Published by: Izumiya Ichibei, (和泉屋市兵衛) Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞 Toyokuni III) biography Date: 1830-1839 (c.) The British Museum

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Disordering Power 3

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Luxuria 2

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Study for Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)  (ca. 1830, graphite & black chalk lightly heightened with white chalk, on wove) Réunion des Musées Nationaux But doubtless, Sir, you will be asking what is this strange, mysterious quality which Delacroix, to the glory of our … Continue reading

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Seated Nude on a Sofa

by Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook: Date painted 1960 Oil on wood, 74.5 x 59.5 cm Collection: Sir Francis Cook Collection

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Beneath the Monkey Bridge

The lurching lady lingering there by the hedgerow Flinging herself in bare armed beauty with The look and gesture of a raging bacchanal Precocious and promising pontificating unintelligibly Possessing the fascination of a chancred flower Cleo de Merode Princess Leda … Continue reading

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If I Can’t Have You

  If I Can’t Have You Attempt-to-locate In the American bush Over lunch at the Old Country Buffet Or among the road runners And the occasional lizard Outside the Pacific Northwest’s Premier cosmetology school Where it looks like someone Has … Continue reading

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Untitled (girl with desk)

Coreen Mary Spellman, 1945 Dallas Museum of Art

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Innocence and Experience 11

Walk in beauty But don’t undulate Oh noble presence Oh moment of distemper You shall see that it is What I say

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