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Gallery of Beauties The Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1]
The New Girl: Girls' Culture in England, 1880–1915 (1995). Muir, Rory. Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen (Yale University Press, 2024) online. Murdoch, Lydia. Daily life of Victorian women (ABC-CLIO, 2013). Murray, Janet Horowitz. Strong-minded women: and other lost voices from nineteenth-century England (1982). O'Gorman, Francis, ed.
The four most well-known women Impressionists - Morisot, Cassatt, Bracquemond, and Gonzalès - emerged as artists at a time when the art world, at least in terms of Paris, was increasingly becoming feminized. 609 works by women were shown in the 1900 Salon, as opposed to 66 by women in the 1800 Salon; women represented 20% of the artists shown ...
Barnum also produced a booklet about another of his Circassians, Zoe Meleke, who was portrayed as an ideally beautiful and refined woman who had escaped a life of sexual slavery. The portrayal of a white woman as a rescued slave at the time of the American Civil War played on the racial connotations of slavery at the time. It has been argued ...
1837 dress. During the start of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, the ideal shape of the Victorian woman was a long slim torso emphasised by wide hips. To achieve a low and slim waist, corsets were tightly laced and extended over the abdomen and down towards the hips. [4]
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...
18th-century French women scientists (15 P) W. 18th-century French women writers (1 C, 96 P) Pages in category "18th-century French women"
In the early 1800s, women wore thin gauzy outer dresses while men adopted trousers and overcoats. Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck and his family, 1801–02, by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Madame Raymond de Verninac by Jacques-Louis David, with clothes and chair in Directoire style.