After the previous posts about repeated use of objects in Pre-Raphaelite art (Rossetti and His Baubles and Hair Adornment in Rossetti Paintings), I have taken to scouring images for props used repeatedly. One of which is this silver ornament or pillar I’ve seen in both The Bridesmaid and Mariana by Sir John Everett Millais: In [...]
Painted by Sir John Everett Millais, The Woodsman’s Daughter is based on a poem by Coventry Patmore. The following lines from Patmore’s poem were displayed with the painting when first exhibited at the Royal Academy: She went merely to think she help’d; And, whilst he hack’d and saw’d, The rich Squire’s son, a young boy [...]
Love’s Shadow (1867) Painted by Frederick Sandys Although Frederick Sandys was not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he is among those artists often described with the term Pre-Raphaelite because of their similarity in style. Sandys lived with Dante Gabriel Rossetti for a time in Rossetti’s home in Cheyne Walk. You may remember that an [...]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted Beata Beatrix as a tribute after the death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal. DGR had always idolized Dante, the author of Vita Nuova. In Vita Nuova, Beatrice is Dante’s unrequited love. In Beata Beatrix, Rossetti paints Elizabeth Siddal as Beatrice, merging his love and Dante’s into one. Rossetti painted several versions [...]
Ophelia is a captivating character, one that many of the Pre-Raphaelites and other Victorian artists drew inspiration from. For those unfamiliar with Ophelia, she is Hamlet’s innocent young love interest in one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays (Hamlet). Hamlet loved Ophelia – but after his meeting with the ghost of his father (Act I) he [...]
Pygmalion and Galatea I: The Heart Desires Pygmalion and Galatea II: The Hand Refrains Pygmalion and Galatea III: The Godhead Fires Pygmalion and Galatea IV: The Soul Attains The tale of Pygmalion dates back to Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The paintings featured here are the second series painted by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Pygmalion is a sculptor [...]
Image shown: study for Pandora, painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1869). Model: Jane Morris. Rossetti cast Jane in several famous roles such as Proserpine, Astarte Syriaca, and featured here: Pandora. Instead of exploring Rossetti’s motives in immortalizing Jane in such a role, I thought we could look at Pandora in general and how she has [...]
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