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NNadir

(33,512 posts) Mon Jan 11, 2016, 08:32 PM Jan 2016

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Proserpine.

1874, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) English.

At the Tate Museum, London.

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Proserpine. (Original Post) NNadir Jan 2016 OP

Fascinating painting...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2016 #1

I keep looking at the hands. femmocrat Jan 2016 #3

look at the folds in the sleeve.......brilliant. nt clarice Jan 2016 #2

Wounded Bear

(58,634 posts)

1. Fascinating painting...nt

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Mon Jan 11, 2016, 09:00 PM

Jan 2016

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

3. I keep looking at the hands.

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 11:55 AM

Jan 2016

They look awkward to me. I even tried to replicate the pose and cannot do it. It almost looks like someone else's hands around her.

clarice

(5,504 posts)

2. look at the folds in the sleeve.......brilliant. nt

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Mon Jan 11, 2016, 09:02 PM

Jan 2016

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