The Moon and Sleep (1894) by Simeon Solomon Framed or Unframed:Unframed Its muscular forms echo Michelangelo

Its muscular forms echo Michelangelo

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John Singer Sargent - the master of society portraiture at the time - captures his niece Reine in a whirl of patterned folds and luminous colour

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The Moon and Sleep (1894) by Simeon Solomon Framed or Unframed:Unframed Its muscular forms echo MichelangeloSimeon Solomons The Moon and Sleep (1894) turns myth into a midnight confession. Held by Tate, this oil on canvas shows the moon goddess Luna visiting Endymion, the beautiful youth granted eternal sleep and eternal youth. The figures are mythic, not known sitters, but their softened profiles blur gender into dream. Solomon, a Jewish Pre Raphaelite artist, was socially punished after arrests and convictions for attempted sodomy. In that light, this