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Striking Strigiformes! Continuing on from Monday's owl theme, here are some stunning designs by William de Morgan for this week's #WilliamWednesday.
We're leaving #TearsOnTuesday behind in 2022 & replacing it with #TalesOnTuesday. Not necessarily any cheerier though!- indeed today's tale features tragic lovers- Paolo & Francesca from Dante's Inferno Canto V- depicted by Rossetti (x 2),Feuerbach & Noel Paton. More next week!
Happy 2022! New year can be a time of music, mirth and dancing, so to begin a new Saturday theme, the #SoundofSaturday, is Rossetti’s ‘The Bower Meadow’ @mcrartgallery.
The women’s togetherness and dreamy hopefulness are my 2022 wishes. Which artwork will inspire your new year?
As we nudge into 2022, this week's #ThursdayTheme features images of Hope. Hope that it will be a good year, a better year, and that we can get through it.... Contributions from Burne-Jones, Evelyn de Morgan, G.F.Watts & Sidney Harold Meteyard.
The final #TearsOnTuesday for 2021. Can we manage 4 Ophelias together? I think so! Contributions are by John Wood (1801-1870) James Sant (1820-1916), Joseph Kronheim (1810-1896) & Dorothy Primrose as 'Ophelia' by Stephen Makepeace ('Siegfried') Wiens (1937, Worthing Art Gall.)
Snowflakes & Sorcery: Dulac & Errol le Cain's illustrations from Andersen's 'The Snow Queen', the Ice-Maiden from 'The Dreamer of Dreams' by Queen Marie of Romania, granddaughter of Queen Victoria plus a contemporary Christmas card taking it's cue for this week's #MagicMonday.
Karibou Kisses & Elfin En'deer'ment: one of Edmund Dulac's enchanting illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Snow Queen' (1911) for this week's #MagicMonday.
Strike a pose.... A rather staged and lounging Ophelia by Victor Müller (c.1869 Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main) for this week's #TearsOnTuesday. "Melancholy, elegiac, blasé, unhappy, in short: quite curious,” is apparently how Müller described his work...
'I paint myself constantly, that is to say whenever I want to make an experiment in method or colour, & I am not in the humour to make a design': self-portaits for this week's #WattsOnWednesday: (1834, 1853, c.1860, 1879 @WattsGallery & NPG) https://t.co/FcMLYFRpZV
This week's #TearsOnTuesday it's the tragic heroine from a female perspective by Maria Spilsbury (c.1800), Marie Berthe Mouchel (1915) & Henrietta Rae (detail, 1890) plus a poster for the 2018 Ophelia film now playing on Netflix, a telling of “Hamlet” from Ophelia’s point of view