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Portrait of Irish novelist James Joyce. Photographed by Camille Ruf in Zurich, 1918.
Love and Pain (Vampire), by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1895). Munch Museum.
Polish Hamlet – Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski, by Polish painter Jacek Malczewski (1903). National Museum in Warsaw.
Foam Horses, by English painter Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (1896). Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, by American painter Thomas Cole (1828). Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
The Night with the Genii of Study and Love, by Brazilian painter Pedro Américo (1886). Museu Nacional de Belas Artes.
Queen Victoria’s Coronation took place on 28 June 1838 at Westminster Abbey. After the event, the Queen made several drawings ‘recollecting’ the Coronation, under the guidance of her teacher Sir George Hayter.
El velorio, by Mexican painter José María Jara (1889). Museo Nacional de Arte.
Paradoxically, the corset was also a sign of respectability, because it controlled the body and, by extension, the physical passions. A strait-laced woman was not loose.