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Slow start, so had time to think about - & 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’.

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2020-03-05

"The passing of the soul at death" by Evelyn de Morgan (1918).

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2020-03-03

"The Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence" by Evelyn de Morgan.

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2020-02-28

🎶...that's when I want....some weird sin🎶...'Thisbe' 1909, after

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2020-02-19

Arthurian legend in art

The Beguiling of Merlin - Edward Burne-Jones
Morgan le Fay - Frederick Augustus Sandys
Sir Galahad - Arthur Hughes

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2020-02-17

Edmund Blair Leighton's medieval paintings (1852-1922).

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2020-02-14

"Fair Rosamund" by John William Waterhouse (1916), at a private collection.

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2020-02-04

Paintings by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917).

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2020-01-28

"The white devil" by John Collier (1890).

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2020-01-18

Colour red in John William Waterhouse's paintings.

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2020-01-06

"The Sleaping Beauty" by Edward Burne-Jones (1870-1890).

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2019-11-21

Fanny was a vulnerable woman without family or support with only debts left by her dead husband. Fanny was turned out of the house in Cheyne Walk and the keys taken from her on the Rossetti family’s behalf, supposedly unbeknown to Rossetti.

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2019-11-11