Category Archives: Woman

The Edge of Running Water

We stood and looked at each other. Drops of water fell from her body like fragments of light, and for an instant it seemed to me that there had been nothing whatever prior to this moment, that we had swum … Continue reading

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Sister Zinszer

 

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Marble relief with a dancing maenad

Adaptation of work attributed to Kallimachos Period: Early Imperial, Augustan Date: ca. 27 B.C.–A.D. 14 Culture: Roman Medium: Marble, Pentelic The Met

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Aine

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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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