"Semiramis" published April 29,1934 in the American Weekly magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Semiramis was a Queen of superhuman beauty who built Babylon. She was a warrior Queen who led her armies to battle. Once she was captured. As soldiers advanced to slay her she slipped out of her clothes, facing them only in her birthday suit. Her enemies thought she must be a goddess to be as beautiful as that. So they worshiped her instead of killing her. Later on Semiramis played the same trick on her rebellious subjects at Babylon. She came before them from the temple of the Goddess Ishtar
In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,” as he was billed on the covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly Sunday magazine. The contract lasted 30 years and Dulac painted 107 watercolors for thirteen different series until his last Arabian Nights in 1951.
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