John Singer Sargent
The Capri girl dancing on the rooftop is Rosina Ferrara, the favorite muse of American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent who made twelve paintings of her over one year. Captivated by her exotic beauty, other 19th-century artists, including Charles Sprague Pearce, Frank Hyde, and George Randolph Barse, also made works of art of her. She married Barse and they moved to the United States. Ferrara had an intriguing look of an Arab or Greek, the type seen in classical art such as that of Ancient Greece. She was also considered a descendant of Barbarossa, a 16th-century pirate.
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