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Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid's Garden
John William Waterhouse
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Lamia
John William Waterhouse
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Lilith
Hon John Collier
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Love's Shadow
Anthony Frederick Sandys
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Danae
Gustav Klimt
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Helen of Troy
Anthony Frederick Sandys
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Lamia
John William Waterhouse
It was this latter incarnation of Lamia as a beautiful woman that inspired John Keats to write his poem Lamia, published in 1820. Waterhouse bases his portrayal of Lamia upon Keats' poem:
She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue;
Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard,
Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;
And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,
Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed
Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries--
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Sir Frank Dicksee
This painting is based on La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats.
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Lady Lilith
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Head of a Woman
Fernand Khnopff
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Jezebel
John Byam Liston Shaw
Jezebel has come to be known as an archetype of the wicked woman.
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Goblin Market
Emma Florence Harrison
An illustration to Christina Rossetti's poem 'Goblin Market'.
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Calm Sea
Arnold Böcklin
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Cassandra
Evelyn Pickering De Morgan
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Dream Land
Emma Florence Harrison
Possibly an illustration to Christina Rossetti's poem 'Dream Land'.
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At the Golden Gate
Valentine Cameron Prinsep
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Athenais
John William Godward
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Bocca Baciata
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
It bears an Italian quotation: 'The mouth that has been kissed loses not its freshness; still it renews itself as does the moon'.
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The Holy Grail
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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La Ghirlandata
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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A Vision of Fiammetta
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Frank Cadogan Cowper
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A Mermaid
John William Waterhouse
This painting was Waterhouse's diploma work for the Royal Academy.
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Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage
Edward Reginald Frampton
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Falling Leaves
John Melhuish Strudwick
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The Soul of the Rose
John William Waterhouse
And the soul of the rose went into my blood (from Tennyson's 'Maud').
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Mary Magdalen in the Grotto
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
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In the Grass
Arthur Hughes
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Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects
James Jacques-Joseph Tissot
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Dream Love
Emma Florence Harrison
An illustration to Christina Rossetti's poem 'Dream Love'.
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