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What exactly is a courtesan? How do they differ from today's understanding of escort or sex worker? Professor Lear explains it all in this short yet informative video! Tag your friends and family and save on our new discount offer. Buy 3 Tickets , Get 1 Free with code GET1FREE Take the tour https://www.shadyladiestours.com/ save $10 Off each ticket at checkout using the code HERSTORY. **Ticket price includes museum admission. Advanced purchase necessary. Discounts available for seniors, students, and Met members.**

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Take the tour https://www.shadyladiestours.com/ save $10 Off each ticket at checkout using the code HERSTORY. **Ticket price includes museum admission. Advanced purchase necessary. Discounts available for seniors, students, and Met members.**

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Two college students review our Shady Ladies Tours of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Take the tour shadyladiestours.com

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Seen at the Met! Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature Date: 1870–1895 Designer: Reinhold Vasters See more like this on our Fashion & Beauty Tour bit.ly/2wHGlhx Baroque pearl mounted with enameled gold set with pearls, emeralds and rubies and with pendent pearls. The variation in quality and variety of media found in objects known to have been made from Vasters’s designs indicate that a number of craftsmen were employed in carrying them out. Although many of the designs are accompanied by directions for their execution, and nearly all the directions are written in German, many of the objects made from them were sold by Frederick Spitzer in Paris. Some of them, at least, may have been executed there. It seems possible on the evidence provided by this jewel to question whether all designs were in fact executed under Vasters’s supervision. The creature in the drawing for this jewel is without a horn. Vasters probably intended it to be a hippocampus, but the identity of the finished figure is confused by the addition of the horn to its forehead, and one wonders whether the resulting sea-going unicorn might have been the whim of the goldsmith who executed the design.

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Fashion & Beauty

Ridiculous Beauty Trend #17: Blackened Teeth Ohaguro is a custom of dyeing one's teeth black. It was most popular in Japan until the Meiji era. Tooth painting is also known and practiced in the...

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We have new tours to choose from and so much to see and learn while on them. Tag your best friend, your family members who loves fun, scandalous history and art ! Take your pick of any our distinctive art museum tours and join us for a memorable experience! Book online at shadyladiestours.com , Ticket price includes museum admission. Advanced purchase necessary. Discounts available for seniors, students, and Met members. Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ShadyLadiesTour

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I don't know how we never saw this review before, but we are grateful for it (to Elizabeth Kerri Mahon--whose blog we have always loved anyway): "So even if you've been to the Met a gajillion times, I highly recommend that you take one of Professor Lear's tours. You will not regret it."

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Find out more about these fascinating women

It's important to pay tribute to the inspiring women who've made a difference for the better — but what about the bad girls in history? From crazed women wor...

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The feminist concept of the “male gaze” is useful in art criticism. The concept originally comes from film studies, where it is used to discuss the fact that men traditionally controlled the camera, of which women were an object. Men certainly also controlled the brush through most of the history of Western painting, and the women in paintings generally acknowledge this. As the art historian John Berger said, women in painting don’t usually look out at the viewer: they aren’t considering the viewer, but considering how the viewer sees them. They have an inward gaze, rather than an outward gaze. But painters can also violate this “rule” (more a tendency really) to depict a woman who has power or confidence. Two paintings that are diagonally across from each other at the Metropolitan Museum make this clear. On the one hand, we have Gérard’s portrait of the Princess of Talleyrand, a courtesan who became Talleyrand’s mistress and then his wife. She was considered very beautiful in her time and is dressed in the latest Empire fashions, and she looks down and to the side in her portrait. Her gaze avoids the viewer’s: she is absorbed in her own thoughts, or her own coquetry, it’s unclear which. Across the gallery is David’s double portrait of the great scientist Lavoisier and his wife, Marie-Anne Paulze. Here the male inside the painting definitely does not control the gaze: he looks up at his wife questioningly, while she does not return his gaze (though she puts her hand on his shoulder with a gesture of intimacy unusual in painting). Instead she turns to look out directly and confidently (though not aggressively) at the viewer: it is she who communicates with the world on behalf of this couple. And in fact this portrays something real about this couple. Paulze had many public-facing characteristics that Lavoisier lacked: she spoke many languages and could inform Lavoisier about the scientific literature of the whole of Europe. And she was also his lab illustrator, explaining his/their experiments to the world through the visual arts. Look at the women you see in the art museum the next time you go. Do they look out at the viewer, or not, and why? https://www.facebook.com/events/724999504353889

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From crazed women worshiping the god Bacchus to Parisian prostitutes on their work break, the Metropolitan is a treasure house of art works that tell us so much about sex, desire and what it means to be human. ** Ticket price includes museum admission. Discounts available for seniors, students, and Met members. Take $10 off each ticket with the code HERSTORY at checkout. ** ☎️ Buy Online or Call 800-656-0713

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Cultural beauty standards across history. It's amazing what women thought was beautiful back then and the lengths they went to achieving them bit.ly/2v78wVa

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Legendary Performer Barbara Cook Dead at 89

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From crazed women worshiping the god Bacchus to Parisian prostitutes on their work break, the Metropolitan is a treasure house of art works that tell us so much about sex, desire and what it means to be human. ** Ticket price includes museum admission. Discounts available for seniors, students, and Met members. Take $10 off each ticket with the code HERSTORY at checkout. ** ☎️ Buy Online or Call 800-656-0713

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The Shady Ladies tour of Paris is off to a rollicking start! Here we are in Montmartre Cemetery, at the tomb of Louise Weber, "La Goulue" (the glutton)—a famous dancer at the Moulin Rouge, and the inventor of the Cancan! Look for more Paris dates, to be announced soon....

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Check out this HOT looking group!! Here's a snapshot of our Shady Ladies of Paris tour group in front of a painting of the Three Graces modeled on three sisters who were, successively, each Louis XV's mistress! #summer #Paris #walkingtour #art #history #sexyarttours click here to learn more about our next Shady Ladies Paris tour in October 👉💖 bit.ly/2ohb77U

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The 6 Types of Women You Meet in a Museum Artists, dancers and more are all waiting to meet you at the NYC Met. Click Here to read more >> https://www.wheretraveler.com/new-york-city/6-types-women-you-meet-museum

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