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Rossetti’s lips (Post no.1 on Pre-Raphaelite ideals of beauty)

Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-2, Tate Britain, London   UK An exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings just opened in Turin (Italy) … More

beauty, D.G. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, dress, Elisabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth, fashion, Jane Morris, Julia Margaret Cameron, Marie Spartali, Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, Sir John Everet Millais, victorian fashion, William Morris, Women

On becoming a “real” chinese woman in the past

  High class chinese lady, early 20th C Without pretending to be an expert on China, chinese culture or history,  in … More

beauty, China, Chinese culture, Empress Dowager Cixi, Foot binding, Jung Chang

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