Now there's a pose worth copying
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I’m posting this picture for no better reason than I love it. It was reproduced in Radio Times magazine last month (where it was incorrectly state that the gallery which possesses it is in Liverpool). The painting is called The Tepidarium and is the work of the Victorian artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. I first saw it in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, in Port Sunlight, Cheshire - a stone’s-throw from where Emma and I lived and worked for several years. The painting is much smaller than you might expect - a mere 24x33cm. We used to visit the gallery often, and I was always drawn to this exhibit as a moth to a flame. Don’t you love the way that ostrich feather evokes the pubic hair it hides? And as for the implement in the girl’s right hand! The strigil’s intended purpose is to scrape the cleansing oils from her body, but I’m sure you can all suggest another use for it.
I’m posting this picture for no better reason than I love it. It was reproduced in Radio Times magazine last month (where it was incorrectly state that the gallery which possesses it is in Liverpool). The painting is called The Tepidarium and is the work of the Victorian artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. I first saw it in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, in Port Sunlight, Cheshire - a stone’s-throw from where Emma and I lived and worked for several years. The painting is much smaller than you might expect - a mere 24x33cm. We used to visit the gallery often, and I was always drawn to this exhibit as a moth to a flame. Don’t you love the way that ostrich feather evokes the pubic hair it hides? And as for the implement in the girl’s right hand! The strigil’s intended purpose is to scrape the cleansing oils from her body, but I’m sure you can all suggest another use for it.
