Monthly Archives: January 2011

Medea

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Stephanie Piña

Medea by Frederick Sandys Sandys portrays Medea as a powerful beauty and I especially love the abalone shell included amongst the other details of the painting.  She’s wearing a coral necklace mentioned in my post Rossetti and his baubles and … Continue reading →

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New Pre-Raphaelite Siting: Wire in the Blood

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Stephanie Piña

I’ve added a new  Pre-Raphaelite siting to the list! I have to say, I was a bit giddy about this siting because it caught me so off guard.  A few minutes after seeing it, I told my husband that when … Continue reading →

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sleeper

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Stephanie Piña

“Poe is a key figure in the development of DGR’s literary style as well. The second-order romanticism developed in Poe’s imaginative writings, and explicated in essays like “The Poetic Principle” and “The Philosophy of Composition”, is recapitulated in DGR’s work, … Continue reading →

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Stephanie Piña

Who doesn’t love Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven?  A masterful poem of mourning, loss and visitation in which the poem’s speaker is grief-stricken with the death of his beloved Lenore and is haunted by memories.  Enter the raven with … Continue reading →

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Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Stephanie Piña

“Romeo and Juliet‘s description of the frantic haste of the rash lovers blends together humor, irony, poignancy, and disapproval, but Shakespeare conveys above all a deep inward understanding of what it feels like to be young, desperate to wed, and … Continue reading →

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