The Illuminated Nymph

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 1

How the body is spotlit, highlighted, centralised, telescoped

(i) Directing Light - Creating Life

1. 2. 3.

4. 5.

6. 7.

(ii) Creating Shadow - Lighting Death

8. 9.

10. 11.

12. 13. 14.

15. 16.

17. 18. 19.

(iii) Lighting Sex - Directing Life

20. 21. 22.

23. 24. 25.

26.

1. Annie-Louis Girodet de Roucy’s The Entombment Of Atala (1808)
2. Annie-Louis Girodet de Roucy’s The Sleep Of Endymion (1791)
3. Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing (1778)
4. Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres’ Odalisque With Slave (1814)
5. Jean Leon Gerôme’s Phryne Before The Aeropagus (1861)
6. John Simons’ There Sleeps Titania (1872)
7. Edward John Poynter’s Diadumene (1884)

8. Arnold Böcklin’s Reclining Nude (1855 c)
9. John Henry Fuseli's Naked Woman And Woman Playing The Piano (1779)
10. John Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare (1781)
11. Gabriel von Max’s Anatomy Of Death (1869)
12. J.H. Hasselhorst’s Interior Of A Dissecting Room With The Cadaver Of A Woman Laid Out On A Table (1864)
13. Richard Tennant Cooper’s Allegory Of The Treatment Of Breast Cancer (1912 c)
14. J.M.W. Turner’s Angel Standing In The Sun (1864)
15. John Atkinson Grimshaw’s Iris, Goddess Of The Rainbow (1876)
16. Luis Ricardo Falero’s Reclining Nude (1880)
17. Luis Ricardo Falero’s Reclining Nude (1893)
18. William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s The Nymphaneum (1878)
19. William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s The Lost Pleiad (1884)

20. John Reinhard Weguelin's Lesbia (1878)
21. Henri Gervex’s Rolla (1878)
22. Fritz Steinmetz-Noris’ Odalisque Reclining On A Bear Rug (1890 c)
23. Jean-Jules Antoine’s Mademoiselle de Maupin (1902)
24. Raoul Duffy’s The Electric Fairy (1937)
25. Victor Brauner’s Nude And Spectral Still Life (1939)
26. Balthus’ The Room (1952)