Sublime
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With the mind of a European philosopher and the looks of a musketeer, she combined qualities that had been combined in men. What was new was that they were combined in a woman—and
Benjamin Moser • Sontag
do not imagine she is a thing of the past, or of legend and history : she represents a powerful male fantasy of a highly sexual, supremely confident, alluring female offering endless pleasure and a bit of danger.
Robert Greene • The Art of Seduction
She’s wild, sensual, intense, untamed, dazzling.
John Lambert • Yoga
Think of the smooth marble of the sculpted nude, or the supple roundness of the Venus de Milo: those proportions might not be the same ones exalted today, but to viewers of the time, the flesh, like the body itself, was perfect. A portrait can thus be judged by its adherence to the ideals of proportion: its skill in transforming the naked body into
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
one. To make women visible, when history has omitted them, implies a corollary task: to work on the relationship between the sexes, and to make this relationship the subject of historical study.