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Early Netherlandish panel of Eve holding the apple beside the tree, the serpent coiled up the trunk wearing a woman's golden-haired face, the paint finely crackledKiki Smith's Lilith: a black bronze woman cast from life, crouching upside down high on the gallery wall, glass eyes looking back over her shoulderFilm still of the Queen of the Night: a crowned soprano with a crescent-moon staff rises from painted clouds inside a swirling tunnel of starsOrientalist painting of Salome: a dark-haired woman with hoop earrings and bared breast in a red sash skirt, gripping a brass platter and bladeCharles-Auguste Mengin's Sappho: the poet in black veils bare-chested on a sea cliff at dusk, lyre at her hip, eyes downcast

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