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'phaedra - peggy lyman' in max waldman on dance: photographs (1988)

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1873

John Simmons

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via Internet Archive Book Images on Flickr

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Spring (Romaine Brooks, c. 1910-13)

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'romeo + juliet - gelsey kirkland + ivan nagy' in max waldman on dance: photographs (1988)

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She loved the rebirth of spring; her beautiful garden; the wild flowers of the fields; butterflies, toads and bees;

Emily Fragos, from Foreword in "Letters of Emily Dickinson"

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Tamara Karsavina as Zobeida in Scheherazade. Photo by E.O. Hoppe, 1911.

Choreography by Mikhail Fokine. Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Costumes by Léon Bakst inspired a fashion for harem pants, turbans and floor cushions.

Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (1885-1978) was a famous Russian ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev.

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Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), “So like a shatter’d Column lay the King”, 1875, albumen silver print, The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Spring (c.1900) - Élisabeth Sonrel (1874-1953)

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• Wedding dress and detachable train.

Date: 1919

Medium: Silk satin, gold lamé, lace.

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Windflowers by John William Waterhouse, 1903

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Abel-Dominique Boyé (French, 1864-1934)

Joy, 1899

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I love this drawing by Henry Patrick Raleigh

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An embroidered lace bridal gown, circa 1905-1910.

Source

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“hylas and the nymphs” (by john william waterhouse) medallion ~