Adelaide Labille-Guiard with Two Pupils

Early Women Masters East & West
Art, Poetry, Music & Spirituality
Emily Dickinson's Nature Mysticism : A Photo Poetic Labyrinth
Explore a clickable 4-circuit-meander and labyrinth, comprised of 32 mystic poems by Emily Dickinson, each combining nature spirituality with travel imagery. The site includes related commentary adapted from ED's own poems and letters, and a searchable one-page copy of St. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle, also a guide to Emily Dickinson's Herbarium, with links to botanical illustrations, and What is a Garden? (Photo Gallery)
Alice Bailly Self Portait
EARLY WOMEN ARTISTS
Women Artists at the Easel (1540-1980)
The Flemish Renaissance painter Caterina van Hemessen (b.1528) created the first self-portrait of any artist (male or female) depicted with brush and palette working at an easel. Her achievement is celebrated here with a slideshow including twenty-three additional variations on the theme by historical women artists.
FREE MIDI MUSIC
Women Composers' Early Music & Ragtime MIDI
  ANCIENT CHINESE TAOISM  
THE FEMININE TAO
(Gender-Inclusive Translations of the Tao Te Ching)
Hyperlinked Bibliography: Women Authors on the Tao Te Ching
Picturing Tao (Enigmatic & Nature Photography)

Hymning the Tao Te Ching
(Literal 81 Chapter Chinese-English Study Version)
Crookback: Women Masters in the Chuang-tzu
Magical Calligraphy of Tokai Okon
Mary Cassatt & Spiritual Alchemy
Immortal Sister Sun Bu-er
(Taoist Poetry & Historical Legend)

ART & MYTHOLOGY
Homeric Hymn to Demeter  |  Bibliography
Sappho or another female author for the Hymn?
Ancient Greek, Transliteration and Translation: Citations from
Feminist & Other Commentary, Art & Photo Illustrations
 
Hymn to Demeter Search by freefind

(001-014)
The Narcissus
(015-032)
Abduction
(033-050)
Novena
(051-061)
Hecate
(062-089)
Helios

(090-104)
Descent
(105-117)
The Well
(118-144)
Doso's Story
(145-170)
Demeter Hired
(171-189)
Threshold

(190-205)
Iambe's Jest
(206-211)
The Kykeon
(212-232)
Demophoön
(233-254)
God-Making
(255-279)
Transfigured

(280-295)
Epiphany
(296-309)
Temple Grief
(310-333)
Messengers
(334-358)
Hermes
(359-383)
Return

(384-413)
Pomegranate
(414-440)
Reunion
(441-469)
Rheia's Visit
(470-482)
The Rites
(483-495)
Triumph
 


Medieval & Renaissance Music CDs
Women composers, music by Kassia (Gregorian), Hildegard of Bingen, Trobairitz (Medieval Women Troubadours), Chansons de Femme, performed by Sinfonye, Anonymous 4, Sequentia, Circle Dances, Christine de Pisan, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, the Black Madonna, Bridget of Ireland

Emily Dickinson Feminist Essays
Brilliant, early feminist essays on Emily Dickinson's life, letters & poetry (pub. 1886-1915) by: (1) Emily Fowler Ford, (2) Ella Gilbert Ives, (3) Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, (4) Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (5) Susan Huntington Dickinson, (6) Lilian Whiting, (7) Martha Dickinson Bianchi
ZEN, SHINTO & ASIAN ARTS
NATURAL SOUNDS (Idiophonics, with sound effects)
in Early Japanese Women's Poetry, (includes Bibliography)
Songs of the Shamaness (Princess Nukata)
Heart to Heart (Japanese Poems with Mary Cassatt)
Studies on compassion: KUAN YIN and TARA (Mayumi Oda)
MT. FUJI's Shinto Goddesses.
Japanese Jomon Pottery
Rengetsu Pottery
« JAPANESE JOMON POTTERY
Women's Prehistoric Ceramics:
(citations, illustrations, sources)
Japanese Tea and Gardens (Zen-Taoist Aspects),
Princess Shikishi's Wild Imaginings (waka),
Haiku Poetry by Chiyo-ni

An Illustrated SHOBOGENZO:
Dogen Zenji's (Gender-Inclusive)
Studies of the Way,
Extensive Bibliography,
Citations, Notes from Commentary.
See also line art illustrations for
Dogen's ECOSPIRITUALITY
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« ABLUTIONS
Keiko Abe Marimba music with
Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
(her hand-shaped bowl with
incised Zen waka poetry, left)
 

ANTIQUE, ANCIENT AND MODERN

ANCIENT & MODERN MAYA LIN
(Illustrated links to fascinating websites exploring
the art and architecture of the great,
contemporary architect Maya Lin)
See also...
Ancient & Modern / Women at the Easel:
BRIDGET RILEY and ALICE NEEL

AMERICAN QUILTS: HISTORY & DESIGN
ANTIQUE GEOMETRIC QUILT DESIGNS

Historical Notes, Free Patchwork Blocks
Quilt Designs In Celebration of Women Artists
Recommended Quilt Design BOOKS

   TANGRAMS 
TANGRAM QUILT DESIGNS (Copyright-Free)
(derived from solutions to ancient
Chinese tangram puzzles)
 Harriet Powers: African-American Story-Bible Quilts


Frida Kahlo with Humming Bird Eyebrows (1946)
See slideshow of FRIDA KAHLO Self Portraits
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detail, guiard

Illustration (TOP): Self Portrait (1785, detail)
by Adelaide Labille-Guiard with Two Pupils
from WOMEN ARTISTS AT THE EASEL (1540-1980)
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