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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)
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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
Happy Birthday William Morris!
Artist, designer, weaver, embroiderer, calligrapher, poet, novelist, social activist...polymath & genius!
'La Pensierosa' (1870, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Photo with her son Michael (1880, unknown photographer, printed by Emery Walker Ltd, 1880, NPG)
Marie Spartali Stillman on #SisterhoodSunday and #MothersDay
British artist, illustrator & designer Frederic James Shields was born #OTD in 1833
Shields produced 2 memorial stained glass windows at All Saints Church at Birchington-on-Sea which overlook the grave of D.G.Rossetti, whom he also drew painting 'The Day Dream' & on his death-bed
A vision in blue velvet for this week's #MillaisMonday
This beautiful painting of weary 'Mariana' (1851, Tate) takes its subject from Tennyson's eponymous poem (1830), inspired by a character from Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' Can you spot the 'mouldering wainscot' mouse?
A sad coastal tale for this weekend's #SiddalSunday:
'Sir Patrick Spens' takes its subject from an ancient Scottish ballad and is an emotive image of loss & longing as wives & children looks out for a ship's sail which may never appear.... (watercolour, 1856 Tate)
For this week's Dantean-themed #GabrielGiovedi:
'Beatrice meeting Dante at a marriage feast, denies him her salutation' (watercolour 1855, Ashmolean)
An award-winning feat of chilly rebuffery!