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Kindness. Humanism.Secular. Sceptic. History, Pre-Raphaelites, Reading, Life-Long Learning. 'Sanity Is Not Statistical'.'Fill the unforgiving minute...'.

Friday 26 October 2012

1600s

1607 -http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6616037.stm - Jamestown founded

1609 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml - Galileo discoveres Jupieter's four large moons

1610 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4jx0 - Caravaggio dies

1610/1611 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest  - The Tempest is written

1611 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x3qy7 - King James Bible published

1616 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shakespeare_william.shtml - Shakespeare dies - 'Some of his most famous tragedies were written in the early 1600s including 'Hamlet', 'Othello', 'King Lear' and 'Macbeth'. His late plays, often known as the Romances, date from 1608 onwards and include 'The Tempest''

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Grecian Reverie, 1889 (oil on canvas) - John WIlliam Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/353113/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/Grecian-Reverie-1889-oil-on-canvas

A Song without Words, 1919 (pencil & w/c on paper) - John William Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/368182/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/A-Song-without-Words-1919-pencil-wc-on-paper

Cleonice, 1913 (oil on canvas) - John WIlliam Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/401547/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/Cleonice-1913-oil-on-canvas

Reverie (Study) (oil on canvas) - John William Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/195715/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/Reverie-Study-oil-on-canvas

Girl with Red Rose (oil on canvas) - John William Godward

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/362971/Godward-John-William-1861-1922/Girl-with-Red-Rose-oil-on-canvas

Saturday 20 October 2012

Millais's Collected Illustrations

http://www.amazon.com/Millaiss-Collected-Illustrations-Everett-Millais/dp/1843680351?SubscriptionId=AKIAIIP3RWFDEYGSBA3A&tag=gag0c-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1843680351&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

William Morris

http://thebeautifulnecessity.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/william-morris-le-carnet-rouge.html
http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/john-everett-millais-merry.html - Merry

Charles Edward Perugini - Portrait of Sophie Gray

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/charles-edward-perugini-portrait-of.html

Frederick Sandys - Olive Margaret Slaughter, 1860

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/frederick-sandys-olive-margaret.html

The Contrast: Youth and Age by John Callcott Horsley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-contrast-youth-and-age-30980

William Herbert Allen - Portrait of a Young Girl with Medlars

http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/william-herbert-allen-portrait-of-young.html

Portrait of a Seated Woman Sleeping by William Bradley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/portrait-of-a-seated-woman-sleeping-19693

Early Sorrow by Henry Le Jeune

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/early-sorrow-12839

Pygmalion and the Image: The Hand Refrains

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/pygmalion-and-the-image-the-hand-refrains-33712

The Toilette

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-toilette-77366 - The Toilette


St Valentine's Morning by John Callcott Horsley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/st-valentines-morning-18870

Gold Fireflies

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/stunning-time-lapse-photographs-of-gold-fireflies-in-japan/?src=footer

John Melhuish Strudwick


When Sorrow comes to Summerday Roses bloom in Vain - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/john-melhuish-strudwick-when-sorrow.html

The Lazy Girl by Henry Nelson O'Neil

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-lazy-girl-77367

William Powell Frith (1819–1909) by Augustus Leopold Egg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/william-powell-frith-18191909-8831

Herodias by Paul Delaroche

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Herodias_by_Paul_Delaroche.jpg

Walter Crane - Lilies

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/walter-crane-lilies.html

Ford Madox Brown: The Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer returns home to Manchester Art Gallery By Richard Mos

http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/painting%20%26%20drawing/art364950

Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christine Rossetti

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/goblin-market-princes-progress-and.html

Roddam Spencer Stanhope - The Water Gate

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/roddam-spencer-stanhope-water-gate.html

Robert Braithwaite Martineau - [Kit's First Writing Lesson] 1852

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/robert-braithwaite-martineau.html

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - illus for Goblin Market

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/dante-gabriel-rossetti-illus-for-goblin.html

The Pre-Raphaelite Dream book

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/pre-raphaelite-dream-book.html

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Elizabeth Siddall Plaiting her Hair

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/dante-gabriel-rossetti-elizabeth.html

Vanity, 1925 (pastel on paper)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/283714/Cowper-Frank-Cadogan-1877-1958/Vanity-1925-pastel-on-paper?search_context=%7B%22url%22%3A%22%5C%2Fsearch%3Ffilter_text%3Dvanity%2Bcowper%26x%3D0%26y%3D0%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%7B%22filter_text%22%3A%22vanity+cowper%22%2C%22filter_searchoption_id%22%3A%222%22%2C%22filter_assetstatus_id%22%3A1%2C%22filter_prev_text%22%3A%22vanity+cowper%22%7D%2C%22num_results%22%3A%222%22%2C%22sort_order%22%3A%22relevance%22%2C%22search_type%22%3A%22search_assets%22%2C%22item_index%22%3A0%7D

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/frank-cadogan-cowper-vanity.html

Aurora Taking Leave of Tithonus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora_Taking_Leave_of_Tithonus.jpg

Marianne Stokes - The Passing Train

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/marianne-stokes-passing-train.html

John Melhuish Strudwick - Acrasia

http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=7391&name=acrasia

Walter Crane - Willows whiten, aspens quiver

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/walter-crane-willows-whiten-aspens.html

Pre-Raphaelite Red Dress

http://www.charles-patricia-lester.co.uk/red-dresses.html

La Bella Mano, 1875 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882

[La Bella Nano, 1875] - http://www.delart.org/collections/preraph/la_bella_mano.html

Henry Wallis - A Young Girl Arranging A Bouquet

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/henry-wallis.html

John William Waterhouse - portrait of Claire Kenworthy

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/john-william-waterhouse-portrait-of.html

Lady in a Green Dress by Augustus Leopold Egg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/lady-in-a-green-dress-71216

Walter Crane - Art and Life

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/walter-crane-art-and-life.html

"to study nature attentively"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradman334/3621190701/

Dante Gabriel Rossetti portrait of Ford Madox Brown

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/dante-gabriel-rossetti-portrait-of-ford.html

EBJ - portrait of a girl

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/edward-burne-jones-portrait.html

Simeon Solomon - Moon and Sleep

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/simeon-solomon-moon-and-sleep.html

Pygmalion and the Image: The Hand Refrains - EBJ

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/pygmalion-and-the-image-the-hand-refrains-33712

EDWARD ROBERT HUGHES RWS (1851-1914) - Bertuccios Bride

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/bertuccios-bride/13154

'Angel Playing a Flageolet', Edward Burne-Jones

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/sudley/collections/entrancehall/angel_burne-jones.aspx

Frank Cadogan Cowper - Titania sleeps - A Midsummer Night's Dream

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/frank-cadogan-cowper-titania-sleeps.html

Burne-Jones on Beauty in The Mirror of Venus and The Wedding of Psyche

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/bj/paintings/wong.html

Bill Moyers - Lincoln

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/lincoln/transcript1.html

Pet Canary by Sophie Anderson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/pet-canary-20337

Exploring Hogarth's House

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15584519

Walker Art Gallery

'The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel', Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre, c.1824  - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/daguerre.aspx

'A Monkey' by George Stubbs, 1799  - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/18c/stubbs-monkey.aspx

'Puck', Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1856)  - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/puck_hosmer.aspx

'Millie Smith', 1846, Ford Madox Brown  - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/millie_smith.aspx





Monna Rosa

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/dante-gabriel-rossetti/monna-rosa-1867

http://www.invaluable.com/fine-art-genre/pre-raphaelite-gtvt6zm3qz

Stephen Greenblatt - Shakespeare

http://open.salon.com/blog/the_biblio_files/2008/10/24/stephen_colberts_shakespeare_smackdown

Descent from the Cross (after Peter Paul Rubens) by Thomas Gainsborough

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/descent-from-the-cross-10965

Abott Thayer

http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/thayer/thayer-paintings-pg-1.html

Queen Blanka, 1877 (oil on canvas)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/476454/Edelfelt-Albert-Gustaf-Aristides-1854-1905/Queen-Blanka-1877-oil-on-canvas

The Turtle Dove (oil on canvas laid down on board)

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/198344/Anderson-Sophie-1823-1903/The-Turtle-Dove-oil-on-canvas-laid-down-on-board

Frederick Sandys - Oriana 1861

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sandys-oriana-t03904/text-summary

Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands - Richard Redgrave

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80570/ophelia-weaving-her-garlands-oil-painting-redgrave-richard/

Friday 19 October 2012

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Lilith (1867) Colored chalk on paper

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/art/holdings/pre_raphaelite/

Sleeping Woman - Sandor Liezen-Meyer

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/47827/Liezen-Meyer-Sandor-1839-98/Sleeping-Woman?search_context=%7B%22url%22%3A%22%5C%2Fsearch%5C%2Fartist%5C%2FLiezen-Meyer-Sandor-1839-98%5C%2F7357%22%2C%22num_results%22%3A%222%22%2C%22search_type%22%3A%22creator_assets%22%2C%22creator_id%22%3A%227357%22%2C%22item_index%22%3A0%7D

Dante Gabriel RossettiSancta Lilias 1874

Sancta Lilias - 1874 (according to inscription) painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882).

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-sancta-lilias-n02440/text-exhibition-catalogue-text

Jason Rosenfeld discusses John Everett Millais

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpx4Klecq6M&feature=related

Frans Hals, Singing Boy with Flute, c. 1623

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ5uG6ryCa4&feature=channel&list=UL

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Hope, 1896

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F00vnE37pIE&list=PLugP0T-YRCWJ3NqEPmo5rMJ7jOVw2DCmu&index=11&feature=plpp_video

Correggio, Jupiter and Io

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrBMFNvvOBI&feature=plcp

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Penguin - Inky Fool

http://blog.inkyfool.com/2012/10/the-etymologicon-in-americas.html

'Pen is the Welsh word for head, thus Penzance in Cornwall is the Holy Headland. Gwyn is the Welsh word for white, as in Gwendolyn, which just means white in the same where that Candida does in Latin. So when Welsh sailors first saw the Newfoundland Auk, with a white patch on his head, they decided to call it a whitehead or penguin.' - Inky Fool

Tuesday 16 October 2012

John Everett Millais: Glen Birnam

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:John_Everett_Millais_-_Glen_Birnam.JPG

Abraham Lincoln: The Great Campaigner

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/sidney-blumenthal-on-how-lincoln-played-the-political-game-to-win.html

One of my favourite lines in Shakespeare


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57532311/j.k-rowling-on-the-private-world-in-my-head/- Charlie Rose mentions Hitchens’ Harry Potter Review - JK Rowling Interview - CBS
‘The distinctly slushy close of the story may seem to hold out the faint promise of a sequel, but I honestly think and sincerely hope that this will not occur. The toys have been put firmly back in the box, the wand has been folded up, and the conjuror is discreetly accepting payment while the children clamor for fresh entertainments. (I recommend that they graduate to Philip Pullman, whose daemon scheme is finer than any patronus.) It’s achievement enough that “19 years later,” as the last chapter-heading has it, and quite probably for many decades after that, there will still be millions of adults who recall their initiation to literature as a little touch of Harry in the night.’
Henry V - Act 4, prologue
‘His liberal eye doth give to everyone, Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all Behold, as may unworthiness define, A little touch of Harry in the night.And so our scene must to the battle fly, Where, Oh, for pity, we shall much disgrace, With four or five most vile and ragged foils Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous, The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see, Minding true things by what their mock’ries be.’ http://nfs.sparknotes.com/henryv/page_150.html

Saturday 13 October 2012

William Hogarth and Georgian Life

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/09/william-hogarth-and-georgian-life

'It is a sad irony that England’s greatest painter of children  (The Graham Children,  for example)  was childless. However, Hogarth and Jane worked tirelessly for the Foundling Hospital, helping other people’s children. The love for them fuelled Hogarth’s masterpiece, his portrait of the founder of the Foundling Hospital, Thomas Coram'

Thursday 4 October 2012

Great Lives - William Hogarth

Ian Hislop chooses William Hogarth - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dnwsm

'Hogarth has always been a hero of mine' - Ian Hislop

1697 - Hogarth was born during the reign of 'William and Mary' (dies 1764)

1764 - dies in London, David Garrick (actor) was his friend

'Gin Lane' - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hogarth-gin-lane-t01799/text-catalogue-entry

'Marraige a la mode' - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/william-hogarth-marriage-a-la-mode-1-the-marriage-settlement

Outre - unconventional, bizarre

- Hogarth was involved with a foundling hospital

http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art64982- Thomas Coram  (foudner of the foundling hospital) - portrait by Hogarth

http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/ - The Foundling Museum

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/william-hogarth - William Hogarth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/william-augustus-17211765-duke-of-cumberland-son-of-george30721 - 'William Augustus (1721–1765), Duke of Cumberland, Son of George II ' (attributed to)

http://www.soane.org/collections_legacy/the_soane_hogarths/rakes_progress/- A Rake's Progress




Great Lives - Mozart

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glx0b - Michael Morpurgo chooses Mozart

1756 - born in Salzburg, Austria

1791 - Died

Insalubrious - not conducive to health, unwholesome

'Leopold'  - Mozart's father

This Sceptred Isle - 216/216

'The conclusion of the epic series. Anna Massey considers Britain's history, from the Romans to the first Prime Minister.'

55BC - Roman invasion of Britain?

410 AD - Romans leave Britain?

Henry II - 1st of the Plantagenet Kings

1215 - Magna Carta

Act of Settlement - throne of England to go to the Elector of Hanover.

George I - spoke no English

George IV - 'gluttonous rake'

Queen Anne - 1708 - last time a monarch vetoed legislation


Wednesday 3 October 2012

"Rosalind and Celia, c.1845 " Maclise, Daniel

http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/image/647166/daniel-maclise-rosalind-and-celia-c-1845

Not a Miracle, but a Trick - The statue of Hermione

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/winterstale/notes/35

'The statue of Hermione at Paulina's house is not a real statue that comes to life by a miracle, it is actually Hermione herself. '

The portrait of Benjamin Disraeli

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/oct/03/disraeli-portrait-one-nation-labour

'John Everett Millais's elegiac 1881 painting of the prime minister thrills beyond mere portraiture.' - Jonathan Jones

This Scepred Isle - 215/216

'The Death of Victoria and the Dream of Gerontius'

1899 - Boer War starts

'concentration camps'

'Khaki election' - 1900 - Conservative party reuturned to Office

Princess Helena - Victoria's daughter - referred to as 'Lenchen'

22nd Jan - 1901 - Victoria dies at Osborne House (Isle of Wight), surrounded by children and granchildren

'John Brown' - Scottish

'Nelson's Victory'

- Buried alongside Prince Albert

April 1900 -Victoria travels to Dublin

This Scepred Isle - 214/216

The Boer War Turns the Century - 'As Queen Victoria reaches 80, the country is at war in South Africa.'

1899 - Victoria is 80 years old, Prince of Wales is 58 years old, PM is Lord Salisbury

Boer = Dutch word for farmer

Rhodesia named for Cecil Rhodes (now Zimbabwe)

1895 - Joseph Chamberlain becomes Colonial Secretary





This Scepred Isle - 213/216

Omdurman, Ladysmith and Mafeking

'Victoria has reigned longer than any other monarch and celebrations are afoot.'

Sep 23 - 1897 - Victoria becomes longest reiginig British monarch

Joseph Chamberlain - Conservative

Queen's Grandson = German Emperor (Kaiser Bill)

1902 - Arthur Balfour succeeds Uncle as PM

June 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo

1898 - Gladstone died (He tried to achieve Home Rule for Ireland)

Queen Victoria 'adored Disraeli'

1894 - Glastone resigns, succeded by Lord Rosebery (Liberal?)

Joseph Chamberlain - Liberal Unionist Leader?

Sep 2 1898 - Battle of Omdurman, outside Khartoum (Churchill was present at the battle)

'Herbert Kitchener'

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02536/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=5 -
William Ewart Gladstone - George Frederic Watts (oil on panel, 1859)

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02537/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=7 -
William Ewart Gladstone - Carlo Pellegrini (watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 6 February 1869)