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Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Lady Lilith

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866–1868

Delaware Art Museum

Lilith, in Jewish legend the first wife of Adam, combs her hair and studies herself in a hand mirror. Rossetti makes seduction look like complete self-possession.

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