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| Vincenzo Feoli after Domenico del Frate Bacchante of Herculaneum ca. 1800-1825 engraving British Museum |
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| Vincenzo Feoli after Domenico del Frate Bacchante of Herculaneum ca. 1800-1825 engraving British Museum |
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| Henri Matisse The Dance 1911 bronze Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Paul Manship Dance of Air and Fire 1930 bronze on marble base Smithsonian American Art Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Otto Greiner Study of Dancer ca. 1895-1905 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Salomon Gessner Frieze of Dancers with Monument to the Three Graces 1777 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Temple Dance of the Soul ca. 1900 pastel on vellum (sold at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2023) private collection |
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| Girolamo Ferroni after Carlo Maratti Dance of Miriam after crossing the Red Sea ca. 1710-30 etching Kupferstichkabinett, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Alfred J. Frueh Michio Ito in The Wine Dance 1917 hand-colored linocut National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Albert Flamen Dancers on the Shore ca. 1648-64 drawing British Museum |
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| Oluf Hartmann Macbeth - Dance of the Witches 1908 oil on canvas (sold at Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 2004) private collection |
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| José Clemente Orozco Dance (Dead Woman) 1935 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Max Weber The Dancers 1948 oil on canvas Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Gail Skoff Trance Dancer 1976 hand-colored gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Abraham Walkowitz Isadora Duncan ca. 1915 gouache, watercolor and ink on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Georgi Alexeiev Isadora Duncan 1921 lithograph (poster) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Laura Peery Wallflowers at the Last Dance 1978 porcelain, buttons and ribbon Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from Sapphics
Then rejoiced she, laughing with love, and scattered
Roses, awful roses of holy blossom;
Then the Loves thronged sadly with hidden faces
Round Aphrodite.
Then the Muses, stricken at heart, were silent;
Yea, the gods waxed pale; such a song was that song.
All reluctant, all with a fresh repulsion,
Fled from before her.
All withdrew long since, and the land was barren,
Full of fruitless women and music only.
Now perchance, when winds are assuaged at sunset,
Lull'd at the dewfall,
By the grey sea-side, unassuaged, unheard of,
Unbeloved, unseen in the ebb of twilight,
Ghosts of outcast women return lamenting,
Purged not in Lethe,
Clothed about with flame and with tears, and singing
Songs that move the heart of the shaken heaven,
Songs that break the heart of the earth with pity,
Hearing, to hear them.






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