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Desire

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Images from the collections

Images about Desire

23 images from works
  • A woman, the physiognomy of whom expresses attention excited by desire. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Cupid presides over a group of naked women who sit separated from groups of yearning men; symbolising the passion of love. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • Four faces expressing (clockwise from top left): hatred or jealousy, anger, acute pain and desire. Etching by A-J. de Fehrt after C. Le Brun.
  • A woman expressing attention, desire and hope. Drawing, c. 1788, after Raphael.
  • A horizontal condom decorated with coloured shapes including red hearts to symbolise love; with the message "without [condoms] the desire goes away". Colour lithograph after Niki de Saint Phalle.
  • Six faces expressing the human passions: (clockwise from top left) scorn, laughter, acute pain, desire, anger, sadness. Coloured etching, c. 1800, after C. Le Brun.
  • Cupid presides over a group of naked women who sit separated from groups of yearning men; symbolising the passion of love. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • Six faces expressing human passions: profiles and frontal views of admiration, desire and veneration. Pen drawing after C. Le Brun.
  • A boy wearing a shirt with lines and squares at the centre of a block of text describing how he will awaken to his homosexual desires in a few years time; a warning about the dangers of AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. in collaboration with the AIDS action group ACT UP Berlin. Lithograph by Pusch+Hüskes, 1990.
  • A woman's face expressing desire (left) and a man's face expressing 'joy with tranquility' (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.

Works from the collections

43 works

    • Books

    Producing desire : changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / Dror Ze'evi.

    Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953- | Date: [2006], ©2006
    • Books

    Longing, intimacy and loneliness / edited by Ami Rokach.

    | Date: 2014
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    Eight heads showing human passions. Etching by Taylor, 1788, after C. Le Brun.

    Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690. | Date: [1788] | Reference: 26878i
    • Books

    What makes your brain happy and why you should do the opposite / David DiSalvo.

    DiSalvo, David, 1970- | Date: 2011
    • Books

    Sex and pleasure in western culture / Gail Hawkes.

    Hawkes, Gail, 1945- | Date: 2004

Related topics

Emotions
Face
Physiognomy
Facial Expression
Love
Hope
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Sexuality
Sex
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