Seraglio
‘Le Bain Turc’ by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painted in AD 1862. For over 400 years composers, writers and artists including Mozart, Edward Clark and Matisse found a rich seam in the subject of the enclosed rooms of female pleasure-givers – Particularly the richest of all, the ‘seraglio’, the harem of the Sultan in Istanbul. Ingres La Baigneuse Valpincon was inspired by Lady Mary Wortley Montagnu’s writings, but his subject became overlaid with an erotic, sexual content that Montagu had explicitly left unsaid, precisely because it was also unseen.
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Posted on Tuesday December 3, 2024
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