Gallery: Golden Gate Renaissance Festival, 2006

The Courtesan's Art; or, Aspects of Love

Rosetta, an earthy goddess she;
Demeter, queen of harvest, lust and gaiety

Sweet Lucrezia, just in wisdom, as Athene
In her insight holds our fleeting dream

Fiery Caterina, "La Tempesta" be her name;
like the Vestal hearth her soul's aflame

Seresina, like to Psyche's tragic soul
Who loves fair Cupid and whom nothing can console

Shading ivory skin
Image copyright Jonathan Steele

Noble Magdalena

Magdalena's dramatic veil

Dario and Magdalena, nell'amore

Fuggi, Fuggi, Fuggi

L'arpa

Magdalena worries

Basta!

"As courtesans, we are experts in love"

""Cold the wind of winter blows..."

A Leita Vita

"Amor c'invita"

"We fain therefore to be at your service"

"Unlike hapless married women"

"Who cares if winter's chill comes forth"

Ti Partir Cor Mio Caro

Ti Partir Cor Mio Caro

"Let us to music!"

"My lover needs no sprightly maid "

Fuggi, Fuggi, Fuggi

Friends from abroad

Lucrezia glows
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© 2007 Richard G Lowe Jr

Seresina, thoughtful
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© 2007 Richard G Lowe Jr

Rosetta fleeces Giuseppe
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© 2007 Richard G Lowe Jr

Parasols from the Orient
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© 2007 Richard G Lowe Jr

Caterina
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© 2007 Richard G Lowe Jr

From the rear

Dario and Magdalena
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© 2007 Richard G Lowe Jr

Caterina has the ear of a courtier