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lanearabella: performing the dance of alluring enticement… (via TumbleOn)
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mikaelsplayground: “If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help”.    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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pre-raphaelisme: Aurelia (Fazio’s Mistress) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1863-1873. The subject is inspired by the poetry of Fazio degli Uberti (1326-1360), addressing his Lady, Agniola of Verona, which Rossetti had included in his Early Italian Poets in 1861. Fazio’s description of his mistress’s beauty (as translated by Rossetti) conforms extremely closely to Rossetti’s image, for which he used his own mistress, Fanny Cornforth, as model: I look at the amorous beautiful mouth, The spacious forehead which her locks enclose, The small white teeth, the straight and shapely nose, And the clear brows of a sweet pencilling. (18-21) I look at her white easy neck, so well From shoulders and from bosom lifted out; And her round cleft chin, which beyond doubt No fancy in the world could have design’d. (35-8) As can be gathered from these lines, the poem is specifically about the act of looking. The male poet declares himself ensnared by the woman’s beauty, yet the woman can exert this power only as a result of his reciprocal observation. Aurelia (the name was presumably chosen for its classical connotations) exudes a powerful erotic appeal, emphasised in the picture by her red lips, flowing red hair and exposed shoulder and neck. Her dreamy expression and self-absorbtion render her entirely passive, the object of the artist’s gaze.
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bornbythesea: bornbythesea: ‘Sheet Music’ | Katharina Rembi By Florian Sommet
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