Woman Combing/Braiding/Arranging/Caressing her Hair

Originally published in 2009. Revised on 28 May 2024. This is a post about pictures depicting a woman / women

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In my beginning is my end (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, East Coker, I)

5th century BC 6th century AD 16th century 16th – 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century and beyond

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Painting the Human Body and Flesh

Back in 1995 I visited an exhibition of the late period Degas in the National Gallery of London. Among the

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