Capri Girl on a Rooftop (1878) by John Singer Sargent Style:Black frame she feels less like a

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Capri Girl on a Rooftop (1878) by John Singer Sargent Style:Black frame she feels less like aJohn Singer Sargents Capri Girl on a Rooftop (1878) catches Capri at golden hour: whitewashed architecture, distant hills and a young woman dancing the tarantella to a tambourine. Crystal Bridges records the work as oil on canvas, painted when Sargent was just 22. The dancer is widely identified as Rosina Ferrara, his Capri muse, whose presence turns the scene from travel study into performance, flirtation and local legend. Read beside Sargents later