Beautiful and Harsh

Edgar Rice Burroughs had a way of rendering exotic females with words, setting the stage for an illustrator to render them with pen and ink. John Carter had his Dejah Thoris, and Carson Napier had his beautiful Duare. 

Both were great fantasies (in the best sense of the word) for adolescent boys dreaming of high adventure. Kaluta's rendering of Duare was beautiful and harsh, an exotic blending of qualities.

Kaluta's details helped to make the visuals stunning, at least for the times they were first published.

These two pages from different chapters are of differing approaches