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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

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

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

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