A young woman with sunkissed cheeks and long auburn hair is curled in sleep, her sheer Grecian dress fanned out and filling the canvas with a tangerine hue. She dozes on a marble terrace, a gold awning above her shading her only slightly. Behind her the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea glitter. An island can be seen, faintly visible in the distance.
In those years, Victorian art had fallen totally out of vogue, and the painting struggled to find a buyer. That was until Puerto Rican industrialist and politician Luis A. Ferré encountered the work on a trip through Europe in 1963, purchasing it outright for the Museo de Arte de Ponce, where it has enjoyed a renaissance of appreciation over the intervening decades and come to be celebrated as a luminous testament of the artist’s unique interpretation of Greek and Latin antiquity.
music, literature, and fashion, and cultivated an ethos of “art for art’s sake” that anticipates many 20th-century art movements. In keeping with the ideals ofdoes not reference myth or religion nor possess any discernible narrative significance—though the vision of a slumbering woman
One of my favorite paintings. I have a copy, beautifully matted & framed, hanging on my bedroom wall. The colors are lush. ❤️❤️❤️
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Robertsixto2 Exquisite
She looks so peaceful.😴 This painting is so Zen. 😍🕉🎨
elliehoulie Isaac Asimov was greatly inspired by Leighton’s work
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