Norman Lindsay (Norman Alfred William Lindsay) (Australian, 1879 - 1969) - Incantation, 1940

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Dominique Louis Féréol Papety (Marseille 1815-1848)

The odalisque / La odalisca

The Punishment of the Thieves from the Divine Comedy by William Blake, 1824-1827

Literary history that happened on 23 October

Odalisque by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1874)

Howard Chandler Christy (American, 1872 - 1952) - Nude with Cat

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Eldorado

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—

This knight so bold—

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—

"Shadow," said he,

"Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,"

The shade replied—

"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edward Allen Poe

Nude by Giacomo Grosso (1896)

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863, French) ~ Odalisque, 1848 

@ Louvre Museum