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“El hada de las aguas, guardiana del espejismo, tiene en su mano todos los pájaros del cielo. Un charco contiene un universo. Un instante de sueño contiene un alma entera.” G. Bachelard #photography #preraphaelites #romanticism #pictorialism #selfportrait #myth

Rossetti, Day Dream--unfinished & finished versions. Portrait of Jane Morris. 1855.#FediArt #Preraphaelites #Painting

A masculine woman sits in an arbor. Her graceful hand holds a branch. Her other hand lays open in her lap beside a flower and open book. She has a pensive, melancholy look on. her face. Everything but the hands, face and flower are in colour, everything else is sketched in black an white.

The same painting but the woman sits, full length and everything is painted in lush, green jewel hues.

Melody, Kate Elizabeth Bunce, 1895. Bunce's use of patterning and embellishment is so fascinating. Seen here on every surface, including that necklace. #MastoArt #Inspiration #Preraphaelites

A stylised portrait of a young white woman with dark hair. She plays a lute and is richly dressed, her green overdress embroidered with flowers. behind her a vase overflows with flowers and a concave mirror in an elaborately detailed frame, reflects the distorted interior of a chapel with stained glass. The woman looks directly at the viewer, her green eyes devoid of emotion, the left eye is lazy and strays slightly.

Storm Spirits, Evelyn De Morgan, 1900 This is #Orkney weather made glam. Right now we are at the centre of the painting--a moment of calm. Lightning has snakes in her hair; mythologies world wide have linked the snake with lighting or a 'serpent of light" .#Preraphaelites #WomenArtists #FediArt

In this painting the element of rain, thunder and lightning are personified as strong, beautiful female spirits, causing chaos and turbulence in the sea below them. To the left, dressed in yellow, is the spirit of Rain pouring grey water from a never-ending vial. To the right, Lightning – a red-winged figure with winged feet, hurls lightning bolts into the storm. At the top centre is the spirit of the Thunderclouds, dressed in dark blue with her dark wings and draperies merging into the thunderclouds around her.

However, in the centre of the image, is a small oasis of sanctuary, away from the pandemonium of the foreground, which offers a sense of hope for a calmer future. The painting was executed in the middle of the Boer War and as such, it can be read as a symbolic depiction of the chaos of war and hope for a return to peace. Text from the Evelyn De Morgan website.

« Circe Invidiosa » (Jealous Circe), 1892

John William Waterhouse (english painter, 1849–1917)
oil on canvas, 180x87 cm

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #preraphaelites #johnwaterhouse #mythologicalart

« Stitching the Standard », 1911

by Edmund Blair Leighton (british, 1852-1922)
Oil on canvas, 98x44 cm

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #preraphaelites #medievalism #leighton

« Lady Godiva », 1897

by John Collier (british painter, 1850-1934)
oil on canvas, 142x183 cm

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #preraphaelites #medievalism #JohnCollier #ladygodivaofcoventry

« God Speed! », 1900

by Edmund Blair Leighton (british, 1852-1922)
Oil on canvas, 160x116cm

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #preraphaelites #medievalism #leighton

#ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #PreRaphaelites #LucianFreud #DanteGabrielRossetti #ArtHistory #DetailedPainting #VictorianArt #MusesInArt #ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #PreRaphaelite #LucianFreud #DanteGabrielRossetti #ArtMuse #DetailedPainting #VictorianArt #FineArt

For #Caturday , another fun find in the University of Delaware Library Special Collections:
Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)
“Self caricature, painting, with a #cat ” dated Sep. 10 1891
drawing, brown ink on paper, sheet 18 x 12 cm
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
#PreRaphaelites

sketch in a small piece of paper, self-portrait of the artist sitting on a box stool with back turned to viewer, painting birds on a canvas while a sitting cat watches to the right; dated in pencil on bottom right

Fun find in the University of Delaware Library Special Collections:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)
“Dinner Time,” 1859
Drawing, pencil on paper; 12.7 x 11.4 cm
“A depiction of the Great Seal in the
London Zoo. Inscribed with title, signed with monogram, and dated April 1859.”
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
#PreRaphaelites #ZooAnimals

closeup photo of the artwork (small pencil drawing on a vertically oriented rectangular piece of paper, slightly yellowed and stained with age) mounted on another piece of paper

A Study, in March
John William Inchbold (1830–1888)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

It is generally agreed that this was the painting exhibited as 'A Study, in March' at the Royal Academy, London in 1855 and inspired by lines from William Wordsworth's 'Excursion', book 1:

“I returned,
And took my rounds along this road again
Ere on its sunny bank the primrose flower
Peeped forth, to give an earnest of the Spring.”

#Spring #march #flowers #art #PreRaphaelites #hope #seasons

"The primrose and harebells in the foreground and the ewe and two lambs on the ridge, herald the arrival of spring, though the trees are still bare, their branches picked out in sharp detail against the blue sky. The microscopic detail epitomises the Pre-Raphaelite approach to landscape painting, which sacrificed perspective to careful finish." It has the appearance of a full colour photograph in style and composition, rather than a painting.

#WatercolorWednesday :
Alice Boyd (Scottish, 1823-1897)
Steps to the studio, Penkill House, June 1875
watercolor, bodycolor, & scratching out over traces of pencil
31 x 22.2 cm. (12 ½ x 8 5/8 in)
https://karentaylorfineart.com/alice-boyd-penkill/
#WomenArtists #PreRaphaelites #BirdsInArt #Peacock

“Alice Boyd was one of the most talented women in the Pre-Raphaelite circle….Boyd painted several watercolours and oils outside her studio in the grounds of Penkill….The inscription on the original mount of the present work: Steps to the Studio, Penkill/Steps that lead to pleasant days/And work that needs nor blame nor praise, reflects a happy and productive working environment. The elaborately drawn peacock and roses and foliage, reminiscent of William Morris wallpaper, bear testament to the emerging Aesthetic movement.”

'Circe Invidiosa' by John William Waterhouse (1892)

#art #arts #artwork #painting #paintings #Myth #myths #mythology #greece #greek #ancientgreece #illustration #realism #arthistory #preraphaelite #preraphaelites #artnet

a painting of a slender woman wearing a long emerald-green dress, pouring a bowl with green fluid in it slowly downwards, a forest and green waters behind her

Finally visited the #VictorianRadicals exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown gets me every time I see it. #art #Birmingham #PreRaphaelites

The artworks he was reminded of were Ophelia by John Everett Millais because of the lush flowers and plants and Pandora by John William Waterhouse because of the dress. We tried out some poses inspired by some of Waterhouse's paintings and chose one where I'm looking wistfully at the sky. Here is a series of other contenders:
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#operaSinger #photoshoot #Darmstadt #preRaphaelites #fasion #MaxAzria

If you've got a chance to get away, take a look at Dennis T. Lanigan's review of "Preraffaelliti Rinascimento Moderno [#PreRaphaelites Modern Renaissance]" at the San Domenico Museum in Forli, Italy (on till the end of the month). Sounds wonderful! https://victorianweb.org/painting/prb/forli.html