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Sublime Sorcery! There is magic afoot in 'The Laboratory' by John Collier (1895, with the Witch strongly resembling Helena Bonham Carter?!) and 'The Wizard' by Edward Burne-Jones (1896-8 ) for this week's
And just who is brewing it?

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2023-02-28

Frost, Fate & Fairy Tales: illustrations by Honor C.Appleton, Harry Clarke & Edmund Dulac for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Snow Queen' (1844) for this week's Snedronningen, Queen of Snowflakes travels throughout the world with the snow in the lands of permafrost❄️

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2022-12-13

Leaves of Gold: James Tissot (1836-1902) captured the season beautifully in these evocative & elegiac works which hint at narratives and are rich in mood

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2022-11-22

More Camelot Capers for this week's in line with the new exhibition 'The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story' . Today it's James Archer's 'The Sangreal, King Arthur Healed of His Grievous Wound' (1863)

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2022-10-25

Goblins! 2 sisters, some sinister, anthropomorphic creatures with ambiguous intent & a smorgasbord of fruit! This week's is Chrisina Rossetti's haunting poem 'Goblin Market', the theme of the online PRS lecture this Sat 24th September with . Do join us!

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2022-09-20

Horsing Around: this week's features Millais's 'A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford' (1857, ) with it's controversially long equine! Its title is from a medieval poem & it was satirised in a print by Frederic Sandys, entitled "A Nightmare".

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2022-08-23

Mourning the Monarch: this week's tells of the passing of legendary King Arthur with the sun setting on Avalon- shown by James Archer (1860) Arthur Hughes (1859), Burne-Jones (1881-1898, the artist's magnus opus measuring 279 x 650cm) & Florence Harrison (1912)

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2022-08-09

This week's is Perseus & the Graiae which Burne-Jones often returned in the late 1870s. The Graiae, sisters of the Gorgons, live in darkness near the end of the earth & have only 1 eye & 1 tooth that they share; Perseus visits them on his quest to defeat the Medusa.

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2022-07-26

Heroine, Horse & Hair! Lady Godiva & her well-known but apocryphal ride through Coventry for this week's by John Collier (1897), Marshall Claxton (1850), P Pargetter for Minton Pottery (all Herbert Art Gall Coventry) & Jules Joseph Lefebvre (Musée de Picardie)

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2022-07-05

This week’s evocatively painted by Mary F Raphael (1898), is from Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book IV, Canto 1: “Princess Britomart, disguised as a knight, fulfilling a vow to her absent lover, rescues the Lady Amoret from durance vile by slaying the monster Busyran."

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2022-06-28

Midsummer Magic: this week's is that of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with enigmatic paintings by Edwin Landseer (1851), Joseph Noel Paton (1849), Richard Dadd (1854-8) & John Simmons (1870).

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2022-06-21

This week's is the tragic one of Joan of Arc, burned at the stake on 30th May 1431, aged just nineteen. Painted here by Millais (1865), Rossetti (1882), John Duncan and Albert Lynch (1903). This was the last painting Rossetti worked on- he died just a few days later.

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2022-05-31

This week's tells of Demeter (Ceres) & Persephone (Proserpine), a myth about the death & rebirth of vegetation & change of seasons but also of maternal devotion, grief & resurrection. Rossetti returned often to the theme. Also: Evelyn de Morgan & Leighton

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2022-05-17

This week's features the Lamia- a serpentine seductress who seduced young men to satisfy her sexual appetite. Apollonius of Tyana's account of Lamia's defeat inspired the poem 'Lamia' by Keats, 1819. Depicted here by Waterhouse, Herbert Draper & Isobel Lillian Gloag.

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2022-05-03

This week's is the story of Echo & Narcissus, depicted here by Waterhouse (1903 ). Devastated by rejection Echo wasted away until all that was left was a whisper; Narcissus then fell in love with his own reflection & a namesake flower grew where he died

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2022-04-26

Part II of the legend of Fair Rosamund for this week's Depictions this time by Waterhouse, Evelyn de Morgan, Burne-Jones & Sandys- the latter concentrates on Queen Eleanor with a poisoned cup & dagger & a red cord which led through the maze to Rosamund's bower.

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2022-04-19

Mistress in the Maze: Fair Rosamund for According to legend King Henry II embowered Rosamund Clifford in the centre of a labyrinth reached by a thread & she was murdered by jealous Queen Eleanor who offered her a dagger or poison: Rossetti, Hughes, Bell Scott, Cowper

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2022-04-12

Calamitous Cassandra: Trojan Priestess of Apollo cursed to utter true prophecies (including the Fall of Troy), but never to be believed. This week's features howling 2 depictions by Frederick Sandys (1860s) plus Evelyn de Morgan (1898 ) & Burne-Jones (1870)

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2022-02-22

"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/ And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Helen of Troy for this week's by Rossetti, Sandys, De Morgan & Poynter (model: Lillie Langtry) Not too sure about ship launching by Sandys' huffy Helen with her petulant pout!

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2022-02-08

Our alumna Lynette Haro (Ryman ’11) is a freelance creative strategist and artist, who paints incredible photorealistic portraits! Check out more of her work at .

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