Venus (or a Nymph) Spied On by Satyrs
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- "I was taking in the wonderful "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions[1]," exhibition currently up at the Metropolitan Museum, when I was struck by his famous “Venus (or a Nymph) Spied On by Satyrs”. The falling of the drapery, the hand gesture, and the blatantly revelatory pose - all very, very reminiscent of [ Clemente Susini ] wax Venus models found at La Specola, the Jospehinum, and beyond."
Gautier's story Une Nuit de Cléopâtre (1838), which includes a fantastic—and an undisguisedly fetishistic—description of the Egyptian queen's body post-mortem.
"Clarimonde" (which also appears, in a different translation, in Italo Calvino's anthology of 19th-century fantasy classics, Fantastic Tales, under the title "The Beautiful Vampire").
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