Both Eugene Delacroix's painting Women of Algiers in Their Apartment of 1834 and Charles Baudelaire's prose poem, "Beautiful Dorothea" can be understood in terms of Baudelaire's comment in the Salon of 1859 that "a fine painting should be produced like a world . . . each layer heightening the reality of the dream bringing it nearer to perfection." ... Both Delacroix's painting and Baudelaire's poem are distinctly foreign and are visions of the Orient and its women. ... The diction Baudelaire uses in "Beautiful Dorothea" conveys a multeity in unity that situates the...

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