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The second painting is far more mysterious. It depicts the figure of a red woman, clad in the ancient style of a wild maenad of Gothograec, and crowned with a radiant diadem of thorns. The woman's features are veiled by the cascade of her long hair, that reaches down towards the whispering shadows of her thighs. Her arms seem to be entwined in an act of ecstatic self-embrace, and her expression is one of delirium or reverie. Behind her are the looming shadows of spires or broken towers, the empires that have fallen beneath her conquest and irresistible triumph. The title of this, the centrepiece triptych painting, is MAIDEN.
