//=time() ?>
A puzzling phosphorescence: can anyone identify artist and title of this spooky oil painting of 1872 for this week's #TuesdayTeaser?
Festooned by Fairies & flowers (and a delightful dose of doves!) 'The Lover's World' (1905) by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale for this week's #MagicMonday
Medieval Musings: 'Lady Affixing a Pennant to a Knight’s Spear' (c.1856 @Tate) by Elizabeth Siddal for this week's #SisterhoodSunday. A chivalric subject, and one laden with sexual symbolism.
This week's midweek offering is the transcendental 'Beata Beatrix' by Rossetti (1864-70 @Tate). Poignant for today as Beatrice's death, which occurred at 9 o'clock on the 9th June 1290 in Dante's 'La Vita Nuova', is foreseen in the sundial which casts its shadow over the number 9
No #TuesdayTeaser again today as it's John Everett Millais's birthday! Born #OTD in 1829. Featured here as three of his 'truest' Pre-Raphaelite works.
Happy Birthday JEM!
'The Enchanted Boat' (1860s) by Walter Crane for #MagicMonday. This delicate w/colour illustrates an episode from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound', Asia's song:
'My soul is like an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing;'
This week's #SisterhoodSunday features a selection by French-born British artist Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823-1903). The very glum little girl is entitled 'No Walk Today' (late 1850s) & fetched a world record price of more than £1 million at Sotheby's, London, in November 2008
Luminescent lunar images ahead of Wednesday's SuperMoon for this week's #MagicMonday, with offerings by Evelyn de Morgan, Edward Robert Hughes, Edward Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon.
It's all about burgeoning blossom for this week's #ThursdayTheme. With superb work by Marie Spartali Stillman: 'Madonna Pietra degli Scrovegni' (1884 @walkergallery) & 'The Enchanted Garden of Messer Ansaldo' (1889) & John Everett Millais 'Spring' & detail (1859 @LeverArtGallery)
Happy Birthday Dante Gabriel Rossetti, born #OTD in 1828. Here a sampling of his sumptuous paintings through the decades:
'The Girlhood of Mary Virgin' 1849 @Tate
'The Tune of the Seven Towers' 1857 @Tate
'The Beloved' 1866 @Tate
'The Blessed Damozel' (1871-8) @LeverArtGallery