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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

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2022-12-15

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

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2022-12-08

Carry on Camelot: for this week's we get Arthurian to coincide with the opening of 'The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story' and a new book 'The Legend of King Arthur: Pilgrimage, Place & the Pre-Raphaelites' published by

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2022-10-13

Celestial Comfort: staying with Phoebe Anna Traquair, this week's is all about depictions of mortals comforted by Angels; a theme which she frequently returned to in a variety of media including oils, embroidery & enamels...

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2022-09-22

Virgins & Visitations: this week's is The Annunciation, mystically treated by Arthur Hacker (1892 & on show at 'Modern Pre-Raphaelites Visionaries' exhibition, Leamington Spa), Elizabeth Sonrel (c.1900), Waterhouse (1914) & Burne-Jones (1879 )

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2022-09-13

Mirror mirror...this week's is all about revelatory reflections as featured in Holman Hunt's 'Awakening Conscience' (1853), Ford Madox Brown's 'Take Your Son, Sir!' (1856), Rossetti's 'Lady Lilith' (1873) & Sidney Meteyard's 'I am Half-Sick of Shadows' (1913)

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2022-06-09

This week's features Lilith, Adam's first wife: 'The witch he loved before the gift of Eve'.
Painting & poem by Rossetti with the face of Fanny Cornforth (1867), Alexa Wilding (1866-1873), study (1866) & photo of Fanny: 'And her enchanted hair was the first gold'

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2022-05-26

Bound to the Bark: Dryads & Hamadryads for this week's Tree Deities & Protectors of the Oak, so connected that they sadly die if the tree is cut down. Painted here by Waterhouse (1893), Evelyn de Morgan (1885) plus Tree Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker (1920s)

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2022-05-19

This week's is William Morris!
Born in 1834. Self-portrait (1856), a rare oil painting 'La Belle Iseult' (1858, ), an early design for wallpaper- 'Trellis' (1862) & 'Snakeshead' textile (1876). This short post cannot do this brilliant polymath justice!

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2022-03-24

A last celestial offering of St Cecilias for this week's by J.M.Cameron, Marie Spartali Stillman, Edward Reginald Frampton & Kate Bunce.
We highly recommend the wonderfully named blog on 'The Holy Busker' by The Kissed Mouth https://t.co/gc5imaZkEp

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2022-01-20

As we nudge into 2022, this week's features images of Hope. Hope that it will be a good year, a better year, and that we can get through it.... Contributions from Burne-Jones, Evelyn de Morgan, G.F.Watts & Sidney Harold Meteyard.

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2021-12-30

Time for King Lear for this week's Shakespearian with contributions from Ford Madox Brown, George Frederick Bensell, Edwin Austen Abbey (including a wonderful Deerhound!) & Gustav Pope. Learn more about Brown in the PRS Autumn special journal issue out very soon!

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2021-10-21

Starting a series of depictions of characters from Shakespeare for our Today it's Hamlet & Ophelia with paintings & drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1864 Gallery Oldham, 1858 British Museum,1865 , & 1866 )

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2021-09-16

This week's is Night & Sleep, with enigmatic contributions from Evelyn de Morgan (1878 ), Simeon Solomon (1894 , 1892 private collection) & Edward Robert Hughes 91912 )

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2021-08-26

This week's Rossetti, Women & Flowers- such sumptuous choice! A Vision of Fiammetta, Lady Lilith & La Ghirlandata. Don't forget our online talk this Sat on floral symbolism in Beata Beatrix with Dr Julie Whyman . For tickets see: https://t.co/jzW610riJx

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2021-08-12

Secrets ahoy! Today's features two paintings entitled 'The Confession', one by Frank Dicksee, the other by John Collier. But who is doing the confessing? And what did they do?!

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2021-07-22

Today's is Sleeping Beauty: with exquisite dreamy contributions from: Edward Burne-Jones (1895-90), John Collier (1923), Thomas Ralph Spence (c.1886) & Archibald Wakley (1901, detail)

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2021-06-17

It's all about burgeoning blossom for this week's With superb work by Marie Spartali Stillman: 'Madonna Pietra degli Scrovegni' (1884 ) & 'The Enchanted Garden of Messer Ansaldo' (1889) & John Everett Millais 'Spring' & detail (1859 )

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2021-05-13

With some warm sunshine for some of us today and travel restrictions easing soon, the seaside is calling us! Herewith the lure of the mermaid's song from Waterhouse, Burne-Jones and Evelyn de Morgan for this week's

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2021-04-15

Does any other painter capture the windswept look as gracefully as Waterhouse? Here are some beautiful examples for this week's 'Windflowers' (1902), 'Boreas' (& study) (1903) & a detail from 'Miranda' (The Tempest) (1916)

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2021-04-08