Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper is on Blueskyさんのイラストまとめ

Today we remember the Holy Family fleeing Bethlehem to escape persecution. Refugees with a newborn child.

In Nun Monkton, we have an unusually peaceful 'Repose on #FlightintoEgypt', with Jesus asleep, by Burne-Jones (1873).
Other designs @BMAGimages & @last_of_england

It has been a joy in these dark times to reconsider the Annunciation scenes by Burne-Jones.
These late works - a watercolour from his Flower Book, stained glass in Rottingdean & the mosaics at St Paul's, Rome - show time in suspense, a moment of waiting before Mary's acceptance

It still feels that we hardly dare to breathe, or to look forward to brighter days.

But here is a beautiful figure of ‘Hope’ - she can still hear the single string of her harp.

A tiny delight in the great void.
GF Watts, 1886, @Tate

Home after my talk, and back to Jane Morris, born #OTD 1839.
A fine model & needlewoman, Jane embodied Guenevere, Pandora & Venus for D G Rossetti.
But she also had a 'delicious chuckling laugh'.
Her gardens at Kelmscott Manor were a haven for women artists in her later years.

Walking through town & thinking about the news. Fearful for the future of our Arts & wild spaces
I remember #Ruskin’s words:
‘A nation cannot last as a money-making mob…-it cannot go on despising literature, despising art, despising nature, despising passion‘
@AshmoleanMuseum

@StroudStory @V_and_A I’ve been thinking about this too. Burne-Jones did not often work in plaster/gesso. There’s the piano decorations. And his ‘Garden of the Hesperides’ 1882 @V_and_A
But Frances’s peacock was a personal/family work. So would be odd to make many copies from original?

Burne-Jones returned to this figure of ‘Love’ in the 1880s, when he drew this embroidery design - now @V_and_A https://t.co/XRCx9EWEwV

And two more late Pre-Raphaelite entries to celebrate #ShakespeareDay. Both are subjects from ‘The Tempest’.

Burne-Jones, ‘The Wizard’ or ‘Prospero & Miranda’ 1890s

Waterhouse, ‘Miranda’ 1916

It’s #HolyWeek2020 & our churches are closed.
Still we can follow the #Easter story through Giotto’s paintings in Arena Chapel, Padua (c1305)
And remember all those in Italy & closer to home who are fearful.
Today- Christ enters Jerusalem in triumph
#Palm Sunday

Slow start, so had time to think about #FolkloreThursday - & how Gabriel Rossetti was drawn to eerie subjects,
like the Doppelgängers in ‘How they met themselves’ (1864) or his many images of ‘Angel footfalls’ from Poe’s ‘The Raven’.

#PreRaphaelites