despite the lack of any legal equality.
religious
The works of art reflect a level of love
illustrating
and care not unlike to what one might
downside
find in modern relationships.
enlightenment:
The first verse of Friedrich Schiller’s 52
poem »The Dignity Of Women« provides a near perfect caption for Graff’s portraits of eighteenth century women:
Honor the women! They’re roses celestial Twining and weaving in lives terrestrial, Weaving the bond of the most blessed love, Veiled in the Graces’ most modest attire Nourish they watchful the e’erlasting fire Of lovely feelings with hand from above. Elisa von der Recke’s (1754-1833)
an
fancies the of
exceeding
focus on reason and
rationality.
In 1779, she met Count Alessandro di Cagliostro,
the
famous
alchemist
and
confidence
trickster, making his way through Europe. She settled the accounts of their encounter publically by issuing a pamphlet
which led
Catherine the Great to assign to her a generous lifelong grant in support of the »sisterhood«. Her financial
biography is alive with joie de vivre and
independence
a fine example of the above: The Baltic-
dedicate her life to her art and spend
German poet escaped an arranged
it meeting the erudite and educated
marriage, joined the freemasons
all over Europe, notably socializing in
and toyed with several other passing
the inner circle of the enlightenment
sister-mag.com
enabled
Elisa
to
