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Fatality Of Femininity: The Femme Fatale And The Fallen Woman
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Fatality Of Femininity: The Femme Fatale And The Fallen Woman

By Megan Shaw.

If Helen of Troy, the face that launched one thousand ships, was the original femme fatale, then Lady Lilith embodied a devious and equally dangerous sexuality. The demise of men at the female hand of beauty, sexuality and undeniable distraction was a well-established concept before the turn of the 19th Century…

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Looking At Frances Hodgkins
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Looking At Frances Hodgkins

By Mirabelle Field.

Frances Hodgkins is widely considered to be one of the most important and well known New Zealand-born expatriate artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hodgkins travelled to England in 1901, in search of a fresh modernist perspective for her art and to gain insight into the cultural roots that Europe held for her…

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Titian’s Assumption Of The Virgin: Piety In Renaissance Italy
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Titian’s Assumption Of The Virgin: Piety In Renaissance Italy

By Venice White.

The celebrated Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecelli, known in English as Titian, was the creator of the powerful altarpiece named Assunta, or ‘Assumption of the Virgin’ . From its unveiling in 1518, it continues to reside in the high altar of one of the most prominent cathedrals in the city of Venice; the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari…

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