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Frank Cadogan Cowper - "The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy" (1926)

Details from Garofalo’s Annunciation (1481)

The Birth of Venus, (Detail), (1888), by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (Hungarian, 1860 – 1933), oil on canvas, 109 cm (42.9 in) x 274 cm (107.8 in), Private Collection

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warm blanket / 12x16, oil & pastel on panel

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'Winter's embrace' by Lucy Campbell

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Sappho (1850) by Joseph-Thomas Chautard (French, 1821 – 1887), oil on canvas, 92 × 192 cm (36 1/4 x 75 5/8 in), Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts

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Elena Wuest - An afternoon Tea, 2026 - Oil on canvas

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In the Venusberg Tannhauser (1901) by John Collier

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Guinevere

Artist: Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (British, 1872-1945)

Date: 1919

Medium: Watercolor, color plate

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Lines printed with the title: "Her memory, from old habit of mind / Went slipping back upon the golden days / In which she saw him first, when Launcelot came" (from Tennyson's Guinevere).

Anthony Harrison talks of the "extraordinarily wide dissemination" of Tennyson's Idylls of the King (605), and it enjoyed tremendous success throughout the period, despite the poet's traditionalist stance in Guinevere.

William Morris's "The Defence of Guenevere" put a different complexion on her adultery. Harrison notes that it was too radical for most readers when first published (1858), but became influential later. Brickdale's representation of her, as beautiful and at one with surrounding nature, seems to confirm a shift in sympathies.

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Mercury and Herse

Artist: Cornelis van Poelenburch (Dutch c. 1594/1595-1667)

Dated c. 1625

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: The Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

Description

Ovid (Met. 2:708-832) tells how three sisters, returning from the festival of Minerva and carrying her sacred baskets on their heads, were espied by Mercury who immediately fell in love with the most beautiful of them, Herse. Another of the sisters, Aglauros, was consumed with envy, and tried to prevent Mercury entering Herse's chamber when he came to her one night. He touched Aglauros with his wand and she turned to black stone, the colour of her thoughts.