Rand Paul & The Speckled Monster
Senator Rand Paul gives a shout-out to The Speckled Monster during the Republican Presidential Debate, September 16, 2015
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The image bloomed upon his canvas: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in her Turkish robes, by Jonathan Richardson, c. 1726 (Private Collection)…
Read MoreThe Turkish Bath by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“Skin shiningly white”: Ingres paints Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s word picture in “The Turkish Bath,” 1862 (The Louvre)…
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No portrait of Zabdiel Boylston survives, but this is how I like to imagine him…
Read MoreLady Mary in Pictures
Before her bout with smallpox Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a famously beautiful woman. She was painted many times, before and after…
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