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Tate on Instagram: "🌹 Meet Lady Lilith, a portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first painted in 1868 to show Fanny Cornforth, then altered in 1872 to represent Alexa Wilding. Gabriel associates Lilith with feminine power, connecting her to ‘New Women’ of the time who were campaigning for equal rights. In a sonnet inscribed on the frame of the painting, Gabriel describes sensual love and ‘the perilous principle in the world being female from the first’. For Gabriel, hair was an expression of wom Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Garden Of Eden, Kris Kristofferson, Biblical Art, Pre Raphaelite, Feminine Power, Garden Of Eden

Tate on Instagram: "🌹 Meet Lady Lilith, a portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first painted in 1868 to show Fanny Cornforth, then altered in 1872 to represent Alexa Wilding. Gabriel associates Lilith with feminine power, connecting her to ‘New Women’ of the time who were campaigning for equal rights. In a sonnet inscribed on the frame of the painting, Gabriel describes sensual love and ‘the perilous principle in the world being female from the first’. For Gabriel, hair was an expression of…

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