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Category: Leighton

LeightonPosted onMarch 14, 2018March 14, 2018

Solitude and Forgiveness

The image above is Solitude by Frederic Leighton and I find it to be a comforting image. It grabs me. Leighton wrote about it to…

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ExhibitsPosted onSeptember 12, 2014January 2, 2015

Upcoming Exhibit: A Victorian Obsession

Leighton House Museum has announced an upcoming exhibit: A Victorian Obsession (November 2014 – March 2015), which will present fifty exceptional and rarely exhibited paintings…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onSeptember 11, 2014May 10, 2016

Katabasis: Descend into Hell

After my recent post on Dante’s Divine Comedy, I’ve been thinking about metaphorical descents into the Underworld.  The rather beautiful Greek word for descent is…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onDecember 11, 2013January 5, 2015

Demeter and Persephone

In De Morgan’s painting,  we see Demeter as she mourns the loss of her daughter.  Stricken with grief,  she clasps her head–surrounded by shafts of…

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