The Wine of Circe, painted by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote a sonnet inspired by this painting, which you can read a great deal of background on at The Rossetti Archive: DGR wrote the sonnet for the express purpose of having “some record of [Burne-Jones'] work in my book [i.e., in the [...]
Waterhouse is an adept at blending feminine beauty and mystery. Here he depicts the goddess Circe amidst shades of greens and blues, creating a world that draws us in and mesmerizes. If you really look at this painting, you can feel yourself transported into Circe’s world: you can hear the water echoing through a secluded grotto. [...]
William Blake’s Hecate, painted in 1795 Magic was usually depicted as very dark, evil. Until the Pre-Raphaelites came upon the scene. Then it was beautiful, mystical. Well, you can see what I mean in these images that conjure up (pardon the pun) mystical and powerful sorceresses. John William Waterhouse, The Magic Circle (note how intense [...]
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 [...]
Astarte Syriaca (painting and poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Mystery: lo! betwixt the sun and moon Astarte of the Syrians: Venus Queen Ere Aphrodite was. In silver sheen Her twofold girdle clasps the infinite boon Of bliss whereof the heaven and earth commune: And from her neck’s inclining flower-stem lean Love-freighted lips and absolute eyes [...]
Just as Rossetti did with Elizabeth Siddal, he painted Jane Morris obsessively. It is fitting (at least from Rossetti’s perspective) that he posed Jane in the classic myth of Proserpine in this painting, which can be considered one of his most recognizable works. Proserpine was the daughter of the goddess Ceres (personally, I prefer the [...]
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