Worshiper of Beauty

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Portrait of Urania, goddess of astronomy and stars British School, 19th Century

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Virginia Woolf, The Selected Letters

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Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist by Bernardino Luini,. c. 1525

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (Dutch–Belgian, 1821–1909), "Study of Eleven Cats" (details), 1904

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Girl Guesses on Camomile by Charles Landelle, detail, 1856

Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

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The Dew (La Rosée), (Detail), (19th century), by Fritz Zuber-Bühler (Swiss, 1822 - 1896)

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Starlight by Émile Vernon (1872–1920), detail

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A Girl with a Dove, Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805)(attributed to)

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Forest Nymph by Paul Hermann Wagner, 1870

Private Collection, Texas

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Stitching the Standard by Edmund Leighton, 1911. (detail)

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from a poem titled "When it’s unbearable," (edited) featured in Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

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Beatrice (1905)

by John Byam Shaw

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The Death of Albine (1895)

by John Collier

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Portrait of a Lady in Allegorical Guise, Holding a Dish of Pearls by Pierre Mignard

French, 1612–1695

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Jules-Cyrille Cavé - Girl with a Bouquet of Daisies (1897)

Thomas Francis Dicksee - Ophelia (1865)

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Venetian Ladies Listening to the Serenade by Frank Cadogan Cowper, detail, 1909

English, 1877-1958

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The Light of the World

Artist: François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

Date: 1750

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Lyon, Lyon, France