I'm not your emotional courtesan just because I'm a dev.
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Richard E. Grant has the social grace of a Venetian courtesan.
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Perhaps Lady Castlerosse might have been something other than a society courtesan.
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He was no more a court Jew than Margaret Thatcher was a courtesan.
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His mother is a famous Muslim courtesan and singer, his father a Hindu.
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On the opposite wall is a 17th-century Italian portrait of a courtesan.
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He's even more useless this season as a spacefaring courtesan, a parody of Firefly's Inara.
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The woman is Cornelia van Nijenroode, the daughter of a VOC governor and a Japanese courtesan.
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Catherine Deneuve plays the former courtesan Odette de Crecy, with Emmanuelle Béart as her daughter Gilberte.
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Now, when it comes to flavour, a Ginsters sausage roll is more coy that a Regency courtesan.
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He will perform "Courtesan and Crone," a solo Ms. Halprin created for herself when she was 79.
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There were even guidebooks instructing men as to the correct conduct when in the company of a courtesan.
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Mr. Petronio performs Ms. Halprin's "The Courtesan and the Crone" (1999), a diva number that deconstructs the diva.
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Kidman portrayed cabaret actress and courtesan Satine who falls in love with a poet, Christian, played by Ewan McGregor.
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"Gigi" told the story of a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training during the 1900s in Paris.
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She's also the secret — and utterly indifferent — courtesan who serves the hotel's wealthiest patrons and sleeps with its owner.
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They think everything is going to be fine when one of the daughters is chosen to be a royal courtesan.
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"When we staged 'La Traviata' [Verdi's opera about a Parisian courtesan], we had water instead of wine," Mr Fanni recalls.
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The corridors still feel as though La Belle Otéro, the legendary Belle Époque courtesan, is lounging right around the corner.
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The gorgeously gilded opera house was a perfect environment to watch the trials and tragedy of the courtesan Violetta Valéry.
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The courtesan analogy may be less ludicrous when applied to the Annie Leibovitz period than to the Roger Straus one.
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For Ally, Petronio takes on this role of the coy, elegant courtesan, expanding the embodiment of the character across gender lines.
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Over and over again, she reinvents her identity and her elaborate, lovingly described wardrobe, becoming by turns diva, courtesan, servant, and spy.
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She found a photograph of her maternal grandmother, a concubine who died of a possibly intentional opium overdose, dressed as a courtesan.
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It has a name of a semi-fictional character, called Lola Montès, who became a courtesan and ended up in a circus.
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New strength in the lower reaches of her voice anchored "Addio del passato," the final-act lament of the doomed courtesan Violetta.
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In fact, as per creator Matthew Weiner, Joan's original purpose was just to be a "courtesan" who taught people the ways of the office.
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The words they often use to describe themselves — dominatrix, fetishist, sensual masseuse, courtesan, sugar baby, whore, witch, pervert — can be self-consciously half-wicked.
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Janet McTeer stars as Sarah Bernhardt, then in her mid-50s and aging out of the dying courtesan roles that made her world-famous.
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In Act I, when Violetta, a charming courtesan, is throwing a lavish party, a soprano must summon flights of coloratura brilliance and coquettish sparkle.
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Had Jack the Ripper not made his dramatic appearance a year later, Freundschuh convincingly argues, the courtesan killings would have entered into the historical annals.
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The "Traviata" on Friday, a Michael Mayer production, starred Aleksandra Kurzak as Violetta, a gracious courtesan dying of consumption and in love with young Alfredo.
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Sonya Yoncheva plays the doomed courtesan Violetta in this Verdi opera, presented here by "Great Performances at the Met"; Michael Fabiano plays her lover, Alfredo.
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"Blouin was always seen as a courtesan," said Karen Bouwer, a professor of French at the University of San Francisco who has written about Blouin.
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After the titular hero's (Shahrukh Khan) childhood sweetheart (Aishwarya Rai) marries another man, he turns to alcohol and to the company of a courtesan (Madhuri Dixit).
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Elsewhere, a print by Kitagawa Utamaro I (early 1750s-1806) shows a courtesan using a needle to tattoo her lover's arm as he grimaces in pain.
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After running his wallet dry, Duthé became a dancer, courtesan, nude model, and general woman of interest — though this lifestyle came with a reputation of stupidity.
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Named after the infamous 18th Century courtesan, Kitty Fisher's is low-key yet elegant, serving Tomos Parry's award-winning modern British food with a Spanish twist.
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The plot centers on a young English writer, Christian, who falls in love with the star performer at the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and courtesan Satine.
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Along the way, he experiences the extremes of deprivation, as an ascetic, wandering monk, and of satiety, as the wealthy lover of the beautiful courtesan Kamala.
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Often characterized as the first work of modernism, "Olympia" depicts a naked white courtesan and her handsomely clothed black maid as near equals, formally and psychologically.
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Now, we may have an answer — it was Constance Quéniaux, a dancer at the Paris Opera, courtesan and mistress of rich men, according to one historian.
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They are part of the collection of La Paiva, a 19th-century French courtesan turned countess, who was well known for her vast collection of fine jewels.
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Playing a courtesan trying to seduce a monk, Ms. Neblett, in a scene at the end of the first act, shed her robe and briefly sang nude.
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The first performance I saw was a version of Halprin's 1999 work "The Courtesan and the Crone," reworked for the museum's mostly concrete, tunnel-like seventh floor gallery.
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The state of the house, from dilapidation to haphazard renovation, mirrors the shifting relationships among its residents, including a Jewish family in hiding, a former courtesan and more.
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A few of the scrolls make learned allusions to religious and literary texts: Tamura Suio's "Courtesan and Elephant" (1716), for example, references Yoshido Kenko's Essays in Idleness (c.
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Meanwhile, Margaret's daughters, experienced courtesan Charlotte (Jessica Brown-Findlay), and newbie ingenue Lucy (Eloise Smythe), who have followed into the family business, must learn to navigate a shifting landscape.
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One hundred years ago this October, the Dutch dancer, courtesan and German-paid secret agent known by her stage name, Mata Hari, was executed by a French firing squad.
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A few years later, in 1763, Casanova was himself fleeced in a convoluted scam by a young French-Swiss courtesan, Marie Ann Charpillon, and her mother, in London's Soho.
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Wells to her two daughters — the one she's already turned into a high-priced courtesan (played by Jessica Brown Findlay of "Downton Abbey") and the one she's about to.
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In 1848, Alexandre Dumas fils published "La Dame aux Camélias," a novel based on the life of his lover Marie Duplessis, a tubercular courtesan who died at twenty-three.
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She was once branded "the most expensive courtesan since Madame de Pompadour," but Gabor insisted that only her marriage to husband No. 2, hotel mogul Conrad Hilton, was financially motivated.
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The 1850s opera La Traviata, had as its protagonist the consumptive Violetta, inspired by the French courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died of tuberculosis in 1847 at the age of 23.
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The sex paradox is restated here: Why, since Hugo had numerous mistresses (most famously, the actress and courtesan Juliette Drouet) is there almost no overt sexuality described in his books?
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She insisted that he dance "Courtesan and Crone," a semi-comical striptease about a woman's horror at her aging, a solo that no one but Ms. Halprin has performed before.
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European women characters can choose the unique class Dragon Rider (which is exactly what it sounds like), whereas indigenous women characters can choose Courtesan (which is exactly what it sounds like).
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Its 248 bottling was known as "The Courtesan," but that name conflicts with an existing trademark in the United States, said Giles Cooke of Thistledown Wine Company, which produced the wine.
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He talked frequently about his past lives (an Egyptian priest who killed Tutankhamen; an 18th Century courtesan) as well as astral projection — he says he was seven the first time it happened.
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Professors typically discuss how the naked white prostitute displayed starkly across her bed meets our gaze confrontationally, rejecting the age-old representation of the demure courtesan and presaging the birth of modernism.
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His intelligence, social connections, and knowledge of the arts made him a sort of courtesan to the older, wealthier gays in San Diego (Vulgar Favors author Maureen Orth compares him to a geisha).
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Perhaps the most surprising canvases in the entire exhibition are two extraordinarily vibrant, gaudy, and brazen copies of Japanese artworks, "Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige)" (1887) and "Courtesan (after [Keisai] Eisen)" (1887).
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The diamond cluster Mata Hari pair — again one large and the other small — evoked the flair and boldness of its namesake, the Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed in 1917 for espionage.
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Meanwhile, in a parallel story, a beautiful courtesan named Angelica Neal, penniless after the death of her aristocratic patron, has decided to abandon the protection of the madam whose top attraction she once was.
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"Gigi," which is the story of a young woman in turn-of-the-century Paris training to be a "courtesan" — a sex worker — and her older male companion who eventually falls in love with her.
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Above the coatrack hangs a portrait of an ancestor Anna-Maria calls "the family prince," a rake who married a French courtesan and built her a castle in Silesia, which was bombed by the Russians.
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Titled "Phryne" for the ancient Greek courtesan, the VR piece features a metallic ballerina guiding you through a garden, with movements recorded and translated from the real gestures of a New York City Ballet dancer.
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But this time attention had to be paid, because one of the victims, Madame de Montille, was a courtesan belonging to "an ethereal rank" of kept women known for their professional skills and fabulous wealth.
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"Untitled (I am in training don't kiss me)" finds Cahun rouged like a courtesan and ripped like an athlete, while "Untitled (Portrait of Claude lying on leopard skin)" offsets its pastoral calm with a hint of Catwoman glam.
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In China as recently as the early 1900s, the brothel, courtesan house, or otherwise designated location where a man might procure what in modern terms would be deemed as a "mistress" was a place of extreme social importance.
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Evstropov said it was conceived as an allusion to 19th century Japanese artist Kobayashi Eitaku's print "Body of a Courtesan in Nine Stages," about the inevitable victory of nature and decay over human assignments of beauty and value.
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Two women, a courtesan in Byzantine Egypt, clashing with a monk not sure if he desires sex with her or her salvation, and a Massachusetts-born activist, thrust into conflict with those who oppose giving her the vote.
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And the final scene's embrace of sincerity — a parade of poignant photo posts of Violetta and her lover, Alfredo — was puzzling after Mr. Stone's initially cleareyed portrayal of this classic courtesan as a slave to the attention economy.
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They need a songwriter for their new play; Christian is just the man for the job, so off they go to the Moulin Rouge, to recruit the courtesan Satine (the wonderful Karen Olivo) to star in their production.
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On its opening page, Lilliet Berne, famous across Europe as a soprano and as a courtesan, arrives at the Senate Ball, in Paris's Luxembourg Palace—the year is 1882—and suddenly realizes that her gown is all wrong.
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She is not Violetta Valéry of Traviata, the worldly courtesan who knows what she's getting into when it comes to love and scandal, whose pathos consists in her knowledge that the pain is coming but acting her part anyway.
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At different stages she performs as a daughter, acrobat, prisoner, servant, friend, courtesan, spy and celebrity — an astonishing arc that circles back when she is invited to appear in a new opera based on her own secret life story.
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In the century since her execution by a French firing squad for spying for the Germans, Mata Hari has been depicted as a self-interested courtesan, a cultural appropriator, a proto-feminist or an innocent victim of wartime passions.
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In an interview with The Daily Mail, Josephine Gillan, who's played courtesan Marei since season 2, says she was working as a prostitute and an adult film actress until she saw an open casting call for Game of Thrones.
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We are told of the diamond-soled boots that the famed courtesan Cora Pearl wore for her performances as Cupid in Offenbach's "Orphée aux Enfers," and of the hundred black bows nestled in the folds of another lady's skirt.
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Nah. She has a type, sure — people love to cast her as an ice queen — but she's covered an incredible range over the course of her career, from the tragic courtesan of Moulin Rouge to the villainous taxidermist of Paddington.
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I've said that this is a largely apolitical "Othello," but its female characters — who also include Flor de Liz Perez's tempestuous Bianca the courtesan — have been conceived with an awakening sense of independence most welcome in the summer of #MeToo.
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A turning point came in 2013, when he took a leave from the company to perform in an intimate dance-theater work, "Chéri," based on Colette's novel about an aging courtesan and her younger lover, by the choreographer Martha Clarke.
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Ms. Gabor, who was married at least eight times and appeared in more than 60 films and television shows, never tried to pass as an actress perfecting her craft — her career consisted of preserving and polishing a Euro-courtesan persona.
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For example, the subject of Manet's "Nana" (1877), which shows a courtesan standing before a mirror, can be directly attributed to a character of Zola's creation, while Zola credited Degas for first introducing him to the figures of working women.
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The mixed bill includes Ms. Rainer's "Trio A" (1966), "Chair Pillow" (1969) and "Diagonal" (1963), as well as an excerpt from Mr. Paxton's 1986 take on Bach's "Goldberg Variations" and Ms. Halprin's 1999 solo "The Courtesan and the Crone," performed by Mr. Petronio.
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Their writings reveal how Quinault Indians consumed an infusion of pompom-like thistles, captured in Shelton's photo, "The Child Bride," to induce temporary sterility; how Māori would boil the leaves of native poroporo, featured in "The Courtesan," and drink the broth as a contraceptive.
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OPERA AND DANCE ROME Teatro dell'Opera di Roma The director Sofia Coppola, of "Lost in Translation" fame, will make her opera directing debut here this spring with Verdi's "La Traviata," a tragedy about what goes wrong when a well-heeled Parisian courtesan falls in love.
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If you haven't read "Nana" — or, even more so, if you have and are hungering for a less censorious, more deeply researched and respectful biography of the 19th-century French courtesan on whom that novel by Zola is partly based — this book is for you.
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Stars of stage and screen, including reality TV celebrity Kim Kardashian and her rapper husband Kanye West, converged on Rome on Sunday for a gala dress rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata", which tells the tragic story of a self-sacrificing courtesan in 19th-century Paris.
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One of the most shocking scenes in the upcoming Mary Queen of Scots movie comes when Mary Stuart, played by Saoirse Ronan, walks in on her husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley in bed with her gay male courtesan, David Rizzio, on her wedding night in 1565.
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In THE COURTESAN AND THE GIGOLO: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Stanford University, cloth, $85, paper, $24.95), Aaron Freundschuh rings the graveyard church bells for a refined, if corrupt fin de siècle world that passed away with a sigh.
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At first, van Gogh simply copied the works in both sketches and oil paintings: For example, in 1887 he traced in pencil and ink the cover of an issue of the magazine Paris Illustré devoted to Japan and also made a large-scale oil painting, "Courtesan (After Eisen)," based on the image.
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During the long scene with Germont, Alfredo's disapproving father, Ms. Oropesa's singing was wonderful, and exquisitely sad in the aching "Dite alla giovine," in which Violetta agrees to give up Alfredo so that his sister's marriage plans will not be derailed by the scandal of the family's new connection to a courtesan.
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Over the course of the novel, Aemilia — at times dressing as a man — crosses boundaries of geography, sex and faith on a path that leads her from her father's household at the age of 7 to a refined education among Christian nobility to an ethically compromised stint as a courtesan, followed by an unwilling marriage.
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Then there are the bedroom, boudoir and bathroom created for the mansion of the couturier Jeanne Lanvin in the 1920s by the master designer Armand-Albert Rateau, and the 9.503 bronze bed furnished with silk velvet that belonged to a famous courtesan who was an inspiration for Émile Zola's novel about the prostitute Nana.
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It was one o'clock: time to record the big Act I duet, "Elephant Love Medley," a mega mashup of some twenty pop songs, in which the bohemian-poet hero and his world-weary courtesan inamorata argue over the nature of love in her elephant-shaped dressing room, sampling lines from U2, Whitney Houston, and Phil Collins.
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Obviously, the world of Riverdale is a bit more heightened than the one in Love, Simon, but given that the CW series let Betty (Lili Reinhart) dabble in webcam roleplaying and Penelope herself become the town's courtesan, you'd think that Cheryl and Toni could kiss without Cheryl getting sent to the American Horror Story version of a nunnery.
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Jakuchu's fine depictions of peacocks, phoenixes, flowers and roosters make for a pleasant contrast with the more provocative images of geisha by Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai, including the latter's striking "A Summer Morning," showing a woman, possibly a courtesan, admiring her image in a hand-held mirror; in the background, a man's kimono is visible.
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The choreographer Stephen Petronio's five-year autobiographical project, "Bloodlines," which pays homage to American postmodern dance as well as to his influences, continues with Yvonne Rainer's "Trio A" (303), "Chair/Pillow" (1969) and "Diagonal" (1963); an excerpt from Steve Paxton's "Goldberg Variations" (1986); and Anna Halprin's "The Courtesan and the Crone" (2718), a solo exploring seduction, gender and aging.
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DELL'ARTE OPERA ENSEMBLE (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) This enterprising company is offering a mini-festival exploring the world of the French courtesan as portrayed in opera, poetry and song with final performances this weekend of Verdi's "La Traviata" (Saturday), Massenet's "Manon" (Friday and Sunday matinee) and a song evening of settings of Baudelaire by composers including Debussy and Fauré (Saturday matinee).
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A little later, during the duet when the passionate young Alfredo expresses his long-brewing love to the courtesan Violetta, Mr. Nézet-Séguin excelled at the most essential requirement for a Verdi conductor: the ability to keep a simple oom-pah-pah accompaniment in the orchestra steady and undulant, while giving the singers just enough leeway to expressively bend vocal lines.
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Set in Georgian England — when, historians estimate, as many as one in five women worked in the sex trade — the series stars Samantha Morton as Margaret Wells, a London brothel owner; Ms. Brown Findlay as Charlotte, her older daughter and the city's courtesan nonpareil; Eloise Smyth as Lucy, her younger, whose virginity she intends to auction off to the highest bidder; and Lesley Manville as Lydia Quigley, her rival madam.
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Ann Shelton, "The Mermaid, Wormwood (Artemisia sp.)," from jane says (2015-ongoing) Ann Shelton, "The Scarlet Woman, Valerian (Valerian sp.)," from jane says (2015-ongoing) Ann Shelton, "The Comfort Woman, Stock (Matthiola sp.)," from jane says (2015-ongoing) Ann Shelton, "The Courtesan, Poroporo (Solanum sp.)," from jane says (2015-ongoing) Ann Shelton, "The Hysteric, Fennel (Foeniculum sp.)," from jane says (2015-ongoing) Installation view of Dark Matter at Auckland Art Gallery (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Dark Matter continues at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Corner Kitchener and Wellesley Streets, Auckland, New Zealand) through April 17.
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Francoise, the family's tireless maid, by turns looks like Giotto's figure of Charity and Anne of Brittany from Jean Bourdichon's Book of Hours (1500-08); the uninhibited courtesan Odette de Crécy, wife of Charles Swann and, later, of Baron de Forcheville, shares features with Botticelli's Zipporah in his Trials of Moses (1481-82) and, in a rare, remorseful pose, with the Graces in the same artist's Primavera (1482); the socially-savvy Robert Saint-Loup resembles a cavalier in a Watteau portrait; and Charlie Morel, the conniving violinist appears, in an unusually alluring light, like a handsome figure by Bronzino.
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