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 [...]
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 [...]
Helen, whose beautiful face was said to have launched a thousand ships. She was the wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta. Of course, the fact that she was married didn’t bother Paris at all; he was a married man as well. But Paris had fallen in love with Helen and, married or not, he [...]
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