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This is Isabella d'Este. She became the Duchesse of Mantua
and a great patron of the arts in 16th century Italy.The painting is the Venus of Urbino by Titian (c.1532-34).
The face is that of Isabella; Titian only met her the once.
The body is a composite of several other women.The significance of this painting (of another female nude
fiddling with her bits), is that it is the first where her eyes
are looking right at you, all previous nudes always
looked away, as if affecting some kind of modesty.[img]https://i.imgur.com/GZoHXzj.jpg?1[/img]
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Larkinesque
By Michael RyanReading in the paper a summary
of a five-year psychological study
that shows those perceived as most beautiful
are treated differently,I think they could have just asked me,
remembering a kind of pudgy kid
and late puberty, the bloody noses
and wisecracks because I wore glasses,though we all know by now how awful it is
for the busty starlet no one takes seriously,
the loveliest women I’ve lunched with
lamenting the opacity of the body,they can never trust a man’s interest
even when he seems not just out for sex
(eyes focus on me above rim of wineglass),
and who would want to live like this?And what does beauty do to a man?—
Don Juan, Casanova, Lord Byron—
those fiery eyes and steel jawlines
can front a furnace of self-loathing,all those breathless women rushing to him
while hubby’s at the office or ball game,
primed to be consumed by his beauty
while he stands next to it, watching.So maybe the looks we’re dealt are best.
It’s only common sense that happiness
depends on some bearable deprivation
or defect, and who knows what conflictsgreat beauty could have caused,
what cruelties one might have suffered
from those now friends, what unmanageable
possibilities smiling at every small turn?So if I get up to draw a tumbler
of ordinary tap water and think what if this were
nectar dripping from delicious burning fingers,
will all I’ve missed knock me senseless?No. Of course not. It won’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbweeq1d1XU
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But I'm forty some years old now and man I don't care
All I want now is just a comfortable chair
And to sell all my stock
And live on the coast
I don't believe in heaven
But I still believe in ghosts.“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –The Be Good Tanyas – Littlest Birds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIhpkEkC4c[img]https://i.imgur.com/fc4sSeb.jpg?1[/img]
Modern Day Moses
Kendall Paynehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t54HRGzXcU0 (1999)
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Neko Case I Wish I Was the Moonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJr-gijrPc
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Alela Diane – Lady Divine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0F4f7ZPiSI
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Jolie Holland Sascha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNhJ4RJ4kU
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Righteously
K Phillips Kat's Song (What I Can't Have)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd4SeviSleA[img]https://i.imgur.com/r23rOfc.jpg?1[/img]
just because …
The Ikettes Tell the Truthhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CuQC_rOcmA
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Adia Victoria – South Gotta Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEm0qOxhGxo
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Amythyst Kiah Black Myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqtPxwOW3HU[img]https://i.imgur.com/791nF2D.jpg?1[/img]
Lula Wiles If I Don't Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyZCIgopf7c[img]https://i.imgur.com/bh3mRWe.jpg?1[/img]
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