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For #FolkloreThursday , some works by Elizabeth Siddal.
She responded to uncanny themes, often from the Border Ballads in her pictures of ‘Clerk Saunders’ & ‘The Rowing Boat’
Here’s a fragment of her own ballad:
‘Many a mile over land and sea
Unsummoned my love returned to me’
Thinking today about poet & painter Elizabeth Siddal who died #OTD 1862. Grateful for these images (made by her husband Rossetti) of Siddal at work.
Esp thankful to scholars who have helped us see beyond the myths inc
@boccabaciata @lucindahawksley @preraphsister @emeraldthiele
Sending you the Love that moves the Sun & the other Stars
(Embroidery design by Burne-Jones, @V_and_A) https://t.co/uFIT9O4caD
With the death of John #Ruskin OTD 1900, I've been revisiting some projects from last year.
I was fortunate to speak to many Ruskin scholars & enthusiasts as I researched 'The Ruskin Revival 1969-2019'.
Turns out, it's on special offer @blackwellbooks : https://t.co/r0GJQO0jgW
For all of us travelling today, #Giotto’s scenes from his Christmas cycle to keep us company.
The Magi & the Holy family journey in fear & faith, towards a star, a baby, a refuge.
Arena chapel, Padua, 1305
Today, in anticipation of Xmas, we continue to journey with Giotto towards the Incarnation.
Here Mary is betrothed to Joseph- he places a ring on her finger. Then she returns home with her friends.
#Ruskin noted the ‘strange seriousness & dignity’ of their actions.
Padua, 1305
The #Ruskin roadshow returns to Lincoln this evening - I’ll be talking to @TheArtsSociety_ there at 7.30.
Bishop Grosseteste University
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Burne-Jones also painted the #witch Circe in oil and watercolour. Zambaco modelled for her too, preparing the potions to change trespassing sailors into pigs.
Circe's story appealed to the later Pre-Raphaelites like Waterhouse, who shows her in the fullness of her powers
For #Halloween- a few of my favourite Pre-Raphaelite #witches:
Burne-Jones loved the Arthurian story of Merlin & Vivien (aka Nimue).
'The Beguiling of Merlin' is currently on show in Pre-Raphaelite Sisters @NPGLondon
Maria Zambaco & Fanny Cornforth are the witches here. (1/2)
Back to Buxton today - (can’t get enough of the Peaks!) - to talk to @TheArtsSociety_ Cavendish about ‘Pre-Raphaelite Sisters’ :
Effie Gray, Jane Morris & Elizabeth Siddal