For this is the powerful but sinister siren call- the femme fatales of the aquatic world. Contributions from John William Waterhouse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Evelyn De Morgan- whose mermaids evoke but question the siren figure- as a woman, critiquing the myth.

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"Mrs. Zambaco" (1870)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

C.P. Cavafy’s cousin Maria Zambaco (1843–1914), born Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti, artist and model.

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Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1872

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"Lady Lilith"
(1868)
By ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Woman combing her hair

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Study for ‘Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante’, 1852 https://t.co/96Nbuuhq5k

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🎨Dante G.Rossetti

Rosa Triplex. Retrato de May Morris

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Study for Predella No. 2, for "Dante's Dream": Dante Awakening from His Dream, 1879 https://t.co/I5XJIqMdNl

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