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This #StudySaturday we are serenaded you with a sacred song in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘A Christmas Carol’, 1867, and it’s preliminary sketches. The second is a more finished chalk drawing and the third an earlier pencil drawing focussed on the positioning of the female figure.

Edward Burne-Jones: "The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favour of the immortality of the soul."
Paint them he did! (& design them for tapestry & stained glass). More Angelic Adventures next week for #ThursdayTheme

Frost, Fate & Fairy Tales: illustrations by Honor C.Appleton, Harry Clarke & Edmund Dulac for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Snow Queen' (1844) for this week's #TuesdayTale. Snedronningen, Queen of Snowflakes travels throughout the world with the snow in the lands of permafrost❄️

Impressive Tresses to keep you warm this winter: luscious locks for this week's #ThursdayTheme- Courbet's 'La Belle Irlandaise' (1865 Stockholm vers.), Rossetti's 'Lady Lilith' (1866-73 @delartmuseum), Millais' 'The Bridesmaid' (1851 Fitzwill Mus) & Sandys' 'Love's Shadow' (1867)

So big is this sketch by Edward Burne-Jones, nearly 5 feet high, it’s divided here into two images, #StudySaturday. It is a watercolour design for a stained glass window panel in @bhamcathedral, in his hometown.

‘The Nativity’,watercolour, heightened with gold, @TheHuntington.

Competition Time! Do the Pre-Raphaelites inspire you? If so there’s still time to enter our 3 competitions: - Essay, Poetry & Painting - & be featured in our Spring issue next year. First Prizes win £100 & runners up a year's free membership. Please see: https://t.co/MLp75xIKX2

Leaves of Gold: James Tissot (1836-1902) captured the season beautifully in these evocative & elegiac works which hint at narratives and are rich in mood #TuesdayTale

Woodland Wooing & a Soporific Serenade: 'Queen Margaret Reading the Gospel to (a very sleepy) King Malcolm Canmore' (1887, Dunfermline City) by Joseph Noel Paton for this week's #WednesdayWonder.
Plus a wee re-enactment (with the holy book replaced by our very own PRS Review!)

Unrequited Love and the Power of the Muse for this #MedievalMonday, ‘First Meeting of Petrarch and Laura’, Marie Spartali Stillman, 1889.

Laura was the muse of the medieval Italian poet, Petrarch. Marie lived near Florence for a while, and had a love of Italian poetry and art.