More Godward's!

Yes, yes, yes! Your overwhelming requests, dear readers, have compelled me to publish some more 'standing' John William Godward's: The Tambourine girl ("feel the marble, Luke"), Athenais,The New Perfume, Nerissa and In the Tepidarium.
Click on the images and enjoy!

Godward was one of the many victims of the "Mafia degli scarabocchi":
"Ignored by the quickly changing tastes of the art critics, Godward became the climatic figure of English classical-subject painting as this genre itself shriveled under the blaze of the 20th century avant-garde. He was the best of the last great European painters to straight-forwardly embrace classical Greece and Rome in their art. Herein lies his significance to art history. With him and his colleagues, we see the nightfall of five hundred years of Classical subject painting in Western art."

Description of the paintings:
"The Tambourine Girl powerfully expresses the artist's deepest emotional instinct. Without much recourse to feeble formulas, Godward simply poses the model against a marble wall, slightly dressed and holding a tambourine. The warm, soft skin of the dark haired beauty successfully contrasts with the cool variegated marble."

"In the Tepidarium (1913) was painted in the steam-room of an ancient thermae (bath). Certainly Godward's most effective nude painting. One might say that the painting was not particularly graceful nor erotic. Rather "sturdy" and "sedate" more adequately describes the picture. The Roman beauty holds a drape that covers everything but her modesty."

"His New Perfume (1914) emphasized the artist's strengths - marble, sculpture, still-life arrangements, drapery and white female flesh."

"Another oil study painted in 1905 was for the rather large and famous canvas of Nerissa (1906). The picture achieves a profound degree of monumentality coupled with sensitivity. Possibly inspired by a Pompeiian visit, the model has a certain "come hither" look, like the attraction Godward must have felt for the Roman peninsula. The large jawed Italian models were often used by Godward and became the mainstay of his facial type."