I’ve spent my entire adult life pursuing Pre-Raphaelite art and in doing so, I find that what I actually discover is myself. Art and literature are crucial to my well-being, it provides a framework to draw upon when I need to process heavy emotion. If daily life intervenes and I allow my pursuit of art to fall to the wayside,…
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- Arthur Hughes, Arthurian Legend, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite Subjects and Themes, Tennyson, Waterhouse, William Holman Hunt
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 in some way, paintings that prompt me to ponder limitations and boundaries. The Lady of Shalott is perhaps the most obvious example that comes to mind. Based upon the poem of the same name by…
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Image of the Week: King Pelles’ Daughter bearing the Sancgraal
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William Morris and Le Morte d’Arthur
Since finishing Le Morte d’Arthur, I’ve been refreshing my memory and reading all the references I can find regarding Pre-Raphaelite art and Arthurian influences. My first choice was a William Morris biography that I happily stumbled across at a flea market a few years ago. There’s one paragraph in particular that always stands out to me, partly because it’s so…
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Pre-Raphaelite Reading Project: Le Morte d’Arthur
For the next selection of the Pre-Raphaelite Reading Project, I’ve chosen a work that inspired many Pre-Raphaelite pieces and captured the Victorian imagination: Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur. We all know the Arthurian tales, they are embedded in our culture. Every few years it seems as if Hollywood gives us a slick new version of Camelot. Authors return to the…
