Items matching women

Cleopatra

A Pre-Rapaelite drawing showing Cleopatra with some round-breasted topless women, presumably slaves or attendants, standing behind her with musical instruments. Incense burns in the foreground, and a [...]

Keywords: people, women, slaves, music, musical instruments

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Added: 2008-10-04

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The Old year and the New

A jester crowns the new year as a young woman, and ushers out the old year, an old woman. This picture was obviously made for the end of 1866 and the start of 1867; it is dated 1867 in the text. It w [...]

Keywords: comics, drawings, people, new year, jesters, women, people

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Added: 2008-12-23

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Emblem 1. Serpent. Eve.

This woodcut shows a naked woman (the Biblical Eve) near an apple tree; a snake or serpent coils round the trunk of the tree. In the background ar a palm tree, a camel, and, in the far distance, a ma [...]

Keywords: emblems, people, nudity, women, snakes, trees, temptation, biblical scenes

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Added: 2007-09-16

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Zodiac wheel with woman (detail)

The central part of the illustration of the Zodiac wheel with the Evangelist symbols.

I have also made separate images for Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Keywords: people, women, zodiac, astrology, colour

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Added: 2009-10-26

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