Miss Lee

szkeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezr

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[shihlun]

Ikko Narahara, Japanesque 禅, 1969-1970.

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Big bird by Matthias Kretschmar.

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Nini Theilade as Venus in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo’s Bacchanale, choreographed by Leonide Massine, with scenery and costumes by Salvador Dalí, circa 1939.

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Vaslav Nijinsky in the role of Albrecht in Giselle.

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[songesoleil]

Pen, Pencil and watercolour. 2nd Quarter 20th century.

Art by Averil Burleigh.(1883-1949).

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Twiggy by Bert Stern, 1967

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[daughterofchaos]

Pier Francesco Cittadini, Portrait of Anna Josepha Monialis, detail, 17th century

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Bernini - Pluto and Proserpina

This is marble.  Just.  Yeah.

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ab. 1600 English School - Group Portrait of a Family, traditionally identified as the Bartholomews of Burford, Oxfordshire

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Abraham del Court and his wife Maria de Kaersgieter by Bartholomeus van der Helst (1654)

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Doublet

1620-1625

The Victoria & Albert Museum

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ab. 1609-1610 Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of a Young Woman with a Rosary

[eastiseverywhere]

Unknown painter

Portrait of a Safavid noblewoman

Iran (late 1600s)

Oil on canvas

[Source]

The Aga Khan Museum says:

The technique employed here is the first clear evidence of Western influence; although the Islamic world was not unaware of monumental painting - the paucity of surviving examples is attributable to the accidents of history - painting on a large-scale support, separate from the wall, is an imported genre. India also appears to witness an upsurge of this kind of painting around the same time (the portrait of Jahangir, for example), but with very different results. By contrast, this portrait, one of two in the collection, reflects a much more direct debt to European painting. Firstly it shows the use of a foreign technique - painting in oils on canvas. Secondly it employs linear perspective. The European-style architecture with columns and mouldings - rather overdone - is almost a direct quotation of a Van Dyck-style full-length portrait: only the curtain is missing… The extent to which European painting styles were adopted varied of course from artist to artist, whether the individuals involved were Georgian, Armenian or Persian. There were farangi (European) painters working in Iran, and paintings - some of mediocre quality, as reported by the Italian Pietro della Valle (1582-1652 CE) - could be seen there. It is difficult to quantify exactly the impact of illustrated travel accounts like the later one by Cornelis Le Bruyn.

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Courtesan as Tôbôsaku (Dongfang Shuo), from the series Courtesans Viewed as the Immortals of Ressenden by Yashima Gakutei, 19th