DISILLUSIONED ACTRESS WEEPS QUIETLY IN FRONT OF HER BOUDOIR MIRROR. SERVANTS IN ATTENDANCE.
Artistic talent. Music, poetry, dance. Reflecting a vision of the divine. Emotionally sensitizing the public through art (aristocratic stratification of society; racism). Unrequited love. Suffering which adds depth to art. Sad impossibility of attaining the heavenly ideal within this world. Soul-stirring beauty. The essential emptiness and vanity of life. Pity (self-pity).