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The vagina represents a powerful symbol as the yoni in Hindu thought. Pictured is a stone yoni found in Cát Tiên sanctuary, Lam Dong, Vietnam.. Various perceptions of the vagina have existed throughout history, including the belief that it is the center of sexual desire, a metaphor for life via birth, inferior to the penis, visually unappealing, inherently unpleasant to smell, or otherwise ...
File: Pablo Picasso, 1904, Woman with a Helmet of Hair, gouache on tan wood pulp board, 42.7 x 31.3 cm, Art Institute of Chicago.jpg
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Her hair is braided on top of her head and adorned with a pearl ornament. The woman's pose, holding the fur in her right hand, is based on the classical sculpture Venus Pudica. Rather than a portrait of a seductive and sensual woman, the painting is a celebration of an ideal of female beauty inspired by the lyricism of the time based on Petrarch.
Undoubtedly due to the climate, the Egyptians used to wear little clothing, loincloths and skirts for men, and transparent linen dresses for women. This is reflected in the art, from the scenes that show the festivities and ceremonies of the court to the more popular scenes, which show the daily work of peasants, artisans, shepherds, fishermen ...
Woman Sitting on a Basket with Head in Hands: March 1883 Art Institute of Chicago [4] The Hague F 1069 JH 325 Woman Sitting on a Basket with Head in Hands: March 1883 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo [5] The Hague F 1060 JH 326 Soup Distribution in a Public Soup Kitchen: March 1883 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam The Hague F 1020a JH 330 The Public ...
Woman in a Tub (or The Tub) is one of a suite of pastels on paper created by the French painter Edgar Degas in the 1880s and is in the collection of the Hill-Stead Museum in Connecticut. The suite of pastels all featured nude women "bathing, washing, drying, wiping themselves, combing their hair or having it combed" and were created in ...