pps-on a side note, I'm a female artist who's been on both sides of the fence: as the artist and as the model. Neither made me feel exploited, in fact, as a model I felt like I was a very active participant in the art-making process, without which the work would not have been made. And for us, that's the whole point. Making the work.

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not just discarded. one, lizzie siddal, wife and muse of dante gabriel rosetti, overdosed on laudanum, to which she was addicted partly for pain and grief after a miscarriage, partly to dull the emotions of a cheating and increasingly distant husband. He went mad and his art suffered in quality after her death

the better part of the story is that he encouraged her to paint, watercolor, and draw, and to write poetry as well. the seriousness with which he took her creative education and the results of the same were quite unusual at the time. models and muses at the time were expected to merely look pretty.

beata beatrix, by dante gabriel rosetti (1863). model: elizabeth siddal.

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