It was the BIBA of its age. As one commentator put it “All the world and his wife is visiting Dr Dresser’s shop”.
Tag: aesthetics
Her name means A Beautiful Woman has Arrived
Her hat’s a bit dinged up, but she is undoubtedly beautiful, despite missing an eye. She is, or was, Nefertiti — and if her portrait bust is a true likeness, she outshines Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra, the Mona Lisa, the Rococo chubbies of Rubens, Michelangelo’s metrosexually buff David, or the unknowable Helen of Troy. Nefertiti is… Continue reading Her name means A Beautiful Woman has Arrived