Image Study VII: Possessed

While this is one of my more rushed image study entries,  I think the subject is a rich one- as the term possessed has many different meanings, all of which are both conceptually and aesthetically evocative and controversial.

Melpomene- Landon Rives
Edward Steichen -1904-05
Photograph- Gum bichromate over platinum print

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas- 1874
Oil on canvas

Still Life with Teapot and Fruit
Paul Gauguin- 1896
Oil on canvas

Sir John Herschel
Julia Margaret Cameron- April, 1867
Photograph- Albumen silver print from glass negative

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi- 1440
Tempera on wood