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Medieval tragedy & intrigue for #WaterhouseWednesday. With the Rapunzel-like 'Fair Rosamund' (1916, priv.coll) we return to Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II, kept in a tower surrounded by a maze, a tale which fascinated Chaucer, Tennyson, Swinburne, Rossetti & Burne-Jones.

Fabulously fishy!🐟 A splendid, salty selection of Merpeople for this week's #WaterhouseWednesday
'A Mermaid 1892-1900 (RA London)
And: 'The Siren' 1901
'Sketch for a Mermaid' 1822
'The Merman' c.1892
(all private collection)

Continuing our rose theme, featuring 'Roman de la Rose (1864, Tate) and 'Three Roses' (1874, private collection) for this week's #GabrielGiovedi. Also floral examples of Rossetti's evolution in style....

As circumstances are currently constantly changing and we are all wondering about the future, here is a prophetic image entitled 'Destiny' (1900 Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum) for this week's #WaterhouseWednesday

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born #OTD this 1828.
Herewith a selection of paintings throughout the stages & styles of his career.
'Self-Portrait' (1847 NPG)
'The Girlhood of Mary Virgin' (1849 Tate)
'The Tune of the 7 Towers '(1857 Tate)
'Joan of Arc' (1882 Fitzwilliam Museum)

'La Bella Mano' (1875 @delartmuseum) for this week's #GabrielGiovedi.
Following current guidelines this resplendent Rossettian damsel is indeed *washing her hands* but we cannot guarantee that the soap is antibacterial …...

Paintings of hope this #SisterhoodSunday from artist & Spiritualist Evelyn de Morgan whose soul passed on yesterday's date in 1919. Rainbows feature heavily in her powerful iconography @DeMorganF
The Light Shineth...
Daughters of the Mist
Sunbeam & Summer Shower
(1900-1919)

More Shakespearian themes for this week's #SisterhoodSunday
Elizabeth Siddal- 'The Macbeths' (c.1860 Ashmolean)
Julia Margaret Cameron- 'King Lear allotting his Kingdom to his three daughters' (1872) & 'Ophelia' (1875)
Lucy Madox Brown- 'Romeo & Juliet' (1870 Wightwick Manor)

Starting a new series of #FridayFavourites, the first of which is 'The Mirror of Venus' by Burne-Jones (1875, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum) with all of its serene, glassy and ethereal beauty. Alas a difficult one to recreate during times of social distancing! ;-)

Rossetti's self-isolating stunners are often shown in luscious but claustrophobic spaces with mirrored glimpses of the outside world or a caged bird echoing their own confinement
Lady Lilith (1866-73 Delaware Art Mus)
Veronica Veronese (1872 Legion of Honor Mus)
#GabrielGiovedi