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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 2639532, member: 13874&quot;][USER=16304]@KevinStandage[/USER]&nbsp; In the first version above the eyes have a stupid expression, and in the second version they are vengeful, treacherous!</p><p><br /></p><p>With so many versions of this painting I wonder just how it was determined that the <i>Australian find </i>was The Original<i>.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Could this very painting have been used as a model for students to copy in some museum art class I wonder?</p><p><br /></p><p>And as a woman I can&#039;t help thinking what makes the subject matter so irresistible, a lovely female depicted, complete in jewelry, fine clothing, and makeup, as a &quot;slave&quot;, that it became<i> a cult figure</i> to be painted again and again?</p><p><br /></p><p>Was that really how men of that era liked to view their women? And why would <i>a woman</i> paint another woman like that? Revenge? Okay--call me paranoid for having theories there...</p><p><br /></p><p>In the famous jingle of a cigarette commercial of the 1960s, <i>You&#039;ve Come A Long Way, Baby...</i> [VA Sl-i-ms, anyone recall?]&nbsp; (Have we really?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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