Judith with the Head of Holofernes, standing nude in a barren landsape

Posted on February 12, 2016 by ubu507
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Artist: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia) (Italian, Borgo Sansepolcro 1553–1615 Rome)
Date: 1570–1615
Medium: Engraving
The Met
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Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Posted on February 12, 2016 by ubu507
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Massimo Stanzione
(Italian, Neapolitan, 1585–1656)
Date: ca. 1640
The Met
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Circe

Posted on February 11, 2016 by ubu507
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by Beatrice Offor

Date painted: 1911
Oil on canvas, 90 x 50 cm
Collection: Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)

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Totem

Posted on February 10, 2016 by ubu507

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Like Air

Posted on February 8, 2016 by ubu507

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Kitty, the Artist’s Sister

Posted on February 6, 2016 by ubu507
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by David Bomberg

Collection: Towner
Date painted: 1929

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The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face

Posted on February 5, 2016 by ubu507

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The Honorable Caroline Upton

Posted on February 4, 2016 by ubu507

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Sir Thomas Lawrence c. 1800

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The Edge of Running Water

Posted on February 3, 2016 by ubu507

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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 out of some infinite reservoir of being until we were stranded on the shore of the world.

— William Sloane, The Edge of Running Water

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Sister Zinszer

Posted on January 30, 2016 by ubu507

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