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Tuesday 29 November 2011

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828 - 1882)

Algernon Swinburne
Bocca Baciata (1859) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/desperateromantics/paintings/bocca_baciata.shtml
Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah (1855) - http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=12805&searchid=9580&tabview=subject
Holy Grail
Il Ramoscello (The Twig) (1865)
Joan of Arc - http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/cockerell/directorcollector/pre-raphaelites.html (Rosetti's last painting) - 'Found on the artist's easel upon his death in 1882, Joan of Arc was acquired by Charles Fairfax Murray.'
La Belle Mano (1875) - http://www.delart.org/collections/preraph/la_bella_mano.html
La Donna della Finestra (1879)
La Ghirlandata
Lady Lilith (1866-68) (altered 1872-73) - http://www.delart.org/collections/preraph/lady_lilith.html
Mary Nazarene - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-mary-nazarene-n02860
May Morris
Proserpine -  (Proserpine = Persephone) - http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=12804&tabview=image
Study for the Blessed Damozel
The Beloved
The Bower  Meadow
The Day Dream - http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/forms-of-verse-sonnet/
Water Willow (1871) -http://www.preraph.org/media/audio/56_22/03_Water_Willow.mp3

' Bocca baciata, described by Swinburne as ‘more stunning than can be decently expressed’ (Swinburne Letters, 1.27), marks a turning point in Rossetti's art, heralding the abandonment of his Pre-Raphaelite past.' - ODB - http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html

John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917)

After the Dance
Apollo and Daphne - JW Waterhouse http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/apollo-daphne-1908/
Camellias
Circe - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/circe-90979
Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus
Destiny - John William Waterhouse - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/destiny-1900/
Diogenes of Sinope
Flora and the Zephyrs - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2010/10/john-william-waterhouse-flora-and.html
Hylas and the Nymphs 1896 - JW Waterhouse  ('The poet Ezra Pound referred to this painting as 'Foreboding in the Pool'' - from JW Waterhouse website.)
"I Am Half-Sick of Shadows," Said the Lady of Shalott
In the Peristyle - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/in-the-peristyle-90385
Juliet (AKA 'The Blue Necklace') 1898 - JW Waterhouse -http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/juliet-1898/
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1893)
Miranda - JW Waterhouse - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/miranda-1875/
Ophelia (1889) - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2009/04/john-william-waterhouse-ophelia.html
Opelia (1894)
Portrait of the Artist's Wife - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/portrait-of-the-artists-wife-71878
Saint Eulalia - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01542http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/saint-eulalia-117689
Sleep and His Half-Brother Death - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/sleep-half-brother-death-1874/
Study of a Female Figure with Rosary
The Bouquet (c1908) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-bouquet-14613http://fag.looksystems.net/Collection/1000.18
The Lady of Shalott (1888) - http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=15984&searchid=9065&tabview=text
The Lady of Shalott - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-lady-of-shalott-14630http://fag.looksystems.net/Collection/1923.15
The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot
The Magic Circle (1886) - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01572
The Necklace (1909)

The Orange Gatherers
The Shrinesolomon
The Siren (circa 1900)
Thisbe

Ulysses and The Sirens 1891 - JW Waterhouse - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/ulysses-sirens-1891/
Undine
Vanity - http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/vanity/11858
William Holman Hunt - Self-Portrait 1845

Sunday 27 November 2011

John Everett Millais (1829–1896)

A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1852)
An Idyll of 1745 (1884) - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/childhood/idyll.asp - 'Such idealised views of children as paragons of innocence, truth and morality were common in Victorian art.'
Apple Blossoms
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Bright Eyes  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/bright-eyes-107424
Bubbles - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=7&id=299
Christ In His House In His Parents - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/N03584
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Speedwell's Darling Blue - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/little-speedwells-darling-blue-102592
Mariana 1851 - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/T07553
Martyr of Solway - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/faith/martyrofsolway.asp
Mercy: St Bartholomew's Day 1572 (1886) - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01510
Miss Eveleen Tennant 1874 - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05260
Meditation 1879 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/meditation-35598
Miss Anne Ryan - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/N04536
Ophelia - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01506
Princess Elizabeth in Prison at St James's - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/princess-elizabeth-in-prison-at-st-jamess-12848
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05583/Robert-Arthur-Talbot-Gascoyne-Cecil-3rd-Marquess-of-Salisbury?locid=35&wPage=1&rNo=24
The Bridesmaid- http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdirect/3637.html
The Convalescent (1875) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-convalescent-107425http://www.aagm.co.uk/thecollections/objects/object/The-Convalescent
The Nest - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/thenest.asp
The Order of Release, 1746 - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01657
The Princes in the Tower - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-princes-in-the-tower-12847
The Prosrcibed Royalist  (Proscribed - Denounce or condemn, Forbid, esp. by law)
The Return of the Dove to the Ark
Vale of Rest, The - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01507

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Saint Cecilia - Nov 22 - Feast Day

Saint Cecilia - 1895 -  John William Waterhouse
St Cecilia - Guido Reni - http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/browse_title.php?id=F.1973.23.P
Saint Cecilia and an Angel - Giovanni Lanfranco - http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/caravaggio/fig7.htm
St Cecilia and the Angels - http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80869/oil-painting-st-cecilia-and-the-angels/
Saint Cecilia - Pietro da Cortona - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pietro-da-cortona-saint-cecilia
Saint Cecilia - Micael Von  Coxcie
Saint Cecilia and the Angel - Carlo Saraceni
The Martyrdom of St Cecilia - Carlo Saraceni
Saint Cecilia - Richard Westall - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/saint-cecilia-86716
Saint Cecilia - Edouard Veith - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/saint-cecilia-29478
Saint Cecilia Playing the Organ - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/saint-cecilia-playing-the-organ-101349 - Justus Sustermans (attributed to)

Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions
To all musicians, appear and inspire:
Translated Daughter, come down and startle
Composing mortals with immortal fire.
W. H. Auden, Hymn to St. Cecilia