Centauresse Size:53 x 76 cm (21 x 30") listens to the fountains weeping

listens to the fountains weeping

Code: EX475

Antique photograph of a Victorian era actress playing Shakespeare's Ophelia

Code: GD617

Code: ART414

Centauresse Size:53 x 76 cm (21 x 30") listens to the fountains weepingIllustration (c. 1920s) of a Centauresse, or Centauride (Kentauride) from Greek mythology. A female member of the Centaur (Kentauroi) tribe. 'In the high woods there was none comelier of all the centaur girls.. She combed her glossy hair, and twined her curls in turn with rosemary or violets or roses, and sometimes she wore a pure white lily. Twice a day she bathed her face in the clear brook that fell from Pagasaes high forest, twice she plunged her