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This is Arthur Tevethin Nowell's stunning and incredible 1887 painting, Captives!!!

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2023-04-05

This is Herbert James Draper's amazing 1901 painting, Tristan and Isolde!!!

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2023-03-14

Full of joy after papers by friends and new allies : modern medievalisms, saints’ landscapes, queer temporality, archival canals with , , , Carl Kears, Cary Howie (and a lil dog)

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2022-07-08

Walter Crane’s Victorian Bluebeard was forbidding and terrifying. Yet it was also embroidered with neoclassicism, Morris’ influence, & the Arts & Crafts movement’s love of tapestries, old manuscripts, medievalism, &…peacocks -if you can spot them ☺️🦚🗝#FairyTaleTuesday

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2022-03-02

Reject medievalism, embrace 80-90ies Sci-Fi Fantasy.

Some commission work in progress.

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2022-01-22

This is ford Madox Brown's amazing 1854 painting, Cordelia Parting from her Sisters!!

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2021-11-21

This is Dante Gabriel Rossetti's amazing c.1857-1864 watercolour painting, The Chapel Before the Lists!!

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2021-11-04

This is Dante Gabriel Rossetti's amazing and beautiful 1861 painting, Fair Rosamund!!

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2021-10-16

Lady Godiva 🏰
According to legend, Lady Godiva took to the streets wearing nothing in order to oppose plans for taxation by her husband, Earl Leofric.
Since then, she has become a popular figure in Art - especially during the Neo-medievalism in 19th Century.

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2021-04-28

This is Sir Joseph Noel Paton's amazing 1885 painting, How an Angel Rowed Sir Galahad across the Dern Mere! It was one of three paintings made by Paton relating to the quest to find the Holy Grail!

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2021-01-15

This is Dante Gabriel Rossetti's beautiful 1864 painting, The First Madness of Ophelia! The colours within this painting are incredible!!

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2020-12-09

This is Frank Dicksee's incredible 1894 painting, Paolo and Francesca! It is inspired by the two doomed lovers within Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy (specifically Inferno).

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2020-11-18

This is an amazing painting by Joseph Noel Paton! Although I am unsure of its exact date, he made a preliminary sketch in 1884 so I'm guessing its around that time!

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2020-11-12

This is Sir William Blake Richmond's incredible c.1902 painting, Joan of Arc!!!!

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2020-11-08