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Category: Waterhouse

Burne-JonesPosted onDecember 19, 2018June 22, 2019

The Artist’s Soul

‘See me, and know me as I am.’   At the age of twenty-one, Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote the short story Hand and Soul, which was…

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Evelyn De MorganPosted onDecember 10, 2018December 10, 2018

Tangled Up in Bloom

“Bloom where you are planted” is an adage we’ve all probably heard, and the sentiment is a positive one: do your best no matter what…

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Burne-JonesPosted onApril 27, 2018April 28, 2018

Navigating Life’s Labyrinths

For me, myths are a touchstone, a framework that helps me work out some of life’s thorniest dilemmas. Recently, I’ve been dealing with a series…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onFebruary 5, 2018February 11, 2018

Finding Fireflies Amidst the Fireworks

When Waterhouse’s exquisite Hylas and the Nymphs was controversially removed from exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery recently, I wrote that it would be far more…

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feministPosted onFebruary 2, 2018February 2, 2018

Bothered by Art Censorship? #MeToo

The Manchester Art Gallery announced this week that it has removed from exhibition the painting Hylas and the Nymphs by J.W. Waterhouse, and also the…

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Burne-JonesPosted onJuly 24, 2017July 24, 2017

Exploring Sponsa de Libano

Sponsa de Libano is inspired by the Song of Solomon:  ‘Awake O North wind; and come then south; blow upon my garden that the spices…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onFebruary 21, 2017

Music is Hope

Have you ever noticed that Pandora is a lot like Eve?  Eve is to blame for being cast out of Eden, Pandora is to blame…

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Burne-JonesPosted onJanuary 30, 2017January 30, 2017

Circe the Enchantress

The works of John William Waterhouse often blend feminine beauty and mystery.  Above is Circe Invidiosa, his depiction of the goddess Circe. With a sumptuous  blend…

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Burne-JonesPosted onNovember 18, 2016February 2, 2018

Menacing Beauty

“There’s always a siren singing you to shipwreck.” – Radiohead, “There, There” Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse depicts a scene from Jason…

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Burne-JonesPosted onSeptember 19, 2016September 19, 2016

The Witch’s Heart

This morning I shared on the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood Facebook page  Edward Poynter’s portrait of Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of Sir Edward Burne-Jones who was an important…

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Anna Lea MerrittPosted onJune 29, 2016May 10, 2017

Lamia, seductive and monstrous

Seen above is Lamia, the Serpent Woman by Anna Lea Merritt.  Be wary of her beauty, for she means to consume you. In mythology, Lamia…

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poetryPosted onApril 18, 2016April 19, 2016

Then be not coy, but use your time

For the title of his 1909 painting Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, John William Waterhouse used a line from the poem To the Virgins,…

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WaterhousePosted onFebruary 29, 2016March 8, 2016

Lyres of Waterhouse

In 1900 John William Waterhouse painted Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus, which shows the discovery of Orpheus’ decapitated head floating next to his lyre. Orpheus…

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BiblicalPosted onDecember 21, 2015December 8, 2018

Images of the Annunciation

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portrayal of the Annunciation is a continuation of the theme begun in his painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin. The moment that…

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Burne-JonesPosted onDecember 11, 2015June 6, 2017

Oracles and Sibyls

sib·yl: noun a woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god. literary a woman able to foretell the future.…

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Arthur HughesPosted onAugust 12, 2015June 28, 2017

Four grey walls, and four grey towers

After posting about Evelyn De Morgan’s painting The Gilded Cage, I began to think about other paintings that depict women who are trapped and imprisoned…

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NaturePosted onJune 20, 2015June 20, 2015

Find Something Beautiful

Since it is now the beginning of Summer, Sweet Summer by John William Waterhouse seems a fitting painting to contemplate.  Reclining in the grass, a…

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Dante AlighieriPosted onJune 9, 2015June 4, 2017

The Unrequited Love of Dante and Beatrice

In reality, Dante loved Beatrice from a distance and they had little to no contact with one another. The  real Beatrice Portinari probably never had…

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Arthur HughesPosted onJune 4, 2015August 24, 2019

The Unrequited Love of Mariana

Above is Sir John Everett Millais’ painting Mariana, which I’ve blogged about before in this post. Her dress is bluer than blue, the stained glass…

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WaterhousePosted onApril 1, 2015April 1, 2015

Waterhouse Signatures

Above is a version of John William Waterhouse’s The Flower Picker.   In J.W. Waterhouse (2002, Phaidon Press), author Peter Trippi tells us that Waterhouse painted at…

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KeatsPosted onMarch 25, 2015

Lamia Revisited

Left to herself, the serpent now began To change; her elfin blood in madness ran, Her mouth foam’d, and the grass, therewith besprent, Wither’d at…

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Burne-JonesPosted onMarch 18, 2015February 2, 2018

Hylas and the Nymphs

Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse depicts a scene from Jason and the Argonauts.  Hylas was the son of King Theiodamas, who was killed…

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Burne-JonesPosted onFebruary 5, 2015January 13, 2018

Monstrous Women

I was browsing a bookstore and found an aisle offering boxed sets of movies packaged with the books they were based on. A little girl…

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mythPosted onDecember 3, 2014December 3, 2016

Pyramus and Thisbe

The tale of Thisbe comes from book four of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In ancient Babylon, the families of Pyramus and Thisbe live in separate houses that…

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MillaisPosted onAugust 13, 2014January 5, 2015

Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare: The Tempest

In The Tempest, Shakespeare tells us the story of Prospero, duke of Milan.  Prospero was dethroned by his brother Antonio and abandoned at sea with…

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