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BooksPosted onAugust 31, 2020September 1, 2020

Barely Clare

I confess that Clare Mackail, youngest granddaughter of Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones, had previously been a mere blip on my radar. That is, of…

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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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Burne-JonesPosted onSeptember 30, 2018September 30, 2018

Contemplating Hours: Pairing Burne-Jones and Siddal

In The Shape of My Heart, I shared that I like to blend seemingly unrelated works of art much like one would pair wine with…

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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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Burne-JonesPosted onJanuary 15, 2018October 4, 2018

The Magic Down the Rabbit Hole

As I pursue the Pre-Raphaelites, I find it is the small details that captivate me, pulling me further and further down the rabbit hole.  One…

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Arthurian LegendPosted onDecember 5, 2017December 6, 2017

Cold Weather Reading

Today has been cold and grey, the kind of day that makes me want to do nothing other than curl up and read.  I’ve been…

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Burne-JonesPosted onOctober 4, 2017October 4, 2018

A Pre-Raphaelite Look at Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Warning: This post contains spoilers. If you have not seen Vertigo, you might want to back away slowly because I do not want to ruin…

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Burne-JonesPosted onSeptember 26, 2017September 26, 2017

Autumn Inspires

I find Autumn to be healing.  Life takes on a distinctive flavor and the speed may be different, but the possibilities are endless.  It’s an…

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Anna Lea MerrittPosted onAugust 23, 2017

The Personification of Love

Today I have been pondering allegories of love in art.  Namely, the choices artists make when representing the concept of Love in physical form.  It…

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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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Burne-JonesPosted onApril 25, 2017April 25, 2017

Venus Concordia

In her memorials of her husband, Georgiana Burne-Jones gives us a glimpse into the creation of Venus Concordia (pictured above). “After ‘The Fall of Lucifer’…

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BooksPosted onMarch 13, 2017September 9, 2017

The Kelmscott Chaucer

In 1891, William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press in an effort to realize his vision of creating exquisitely crafted books.  Joining him in this endeavor…

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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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BooksPosted onOctober 21, 2016October 21, 2016

The Diaries of William Allingham

If you’re interested in studying the Victorian era seriously, then diaries and letters are important.  At times I feel like a 21st-century snoop, devouring personal…

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BooksPosted onJune 20, 2016April 17, 2018

Pan, Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Above is a detail from Arthur Rackham’s illustration of Pan from The Wind in the Willows. I first became enchanted by Pan when, as a little…

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Burne-JonesPosted onMay 19, 2016May 19, 2016

Sidonia: From Burne-Jones to Tim Burton

I posted about Sir Edward Burne-Jones’ painting Sidonia von Bork in 2009, but Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood’s readership has grown quite a bit since then, so I…

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Burne-JonesPosted onJanuary 21, 2016September 18, 2017

A Mother’s Exile

Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of artist Edward Burne-Jones, was a devoted wife and mother.  Her love for her husband and children is obvious when reading any…

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Burne-JonesPosted onJanuary 14, 2016January 19, 2016

Burne-Jones’ “Bogey Drawings”

“I do not know exactly where to place a class of drawings for which Edward was famous in our closest circle. We called them “Bogey…

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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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BooksPosted onDecember 17, 2015January 19, 2016

Art of the Story

In a post a few years ago, I said that my love of Pre-Raphaelite art probably stems from my lifelong love of stories.  Much of…

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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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Burne-JonesPosted onAugust 28, 2015

A #WombatFriday for Burne-Jones

Today is the birthday of artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, the artist who was the genesis of my interest for the Pre-Raphaelites when, at the…

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Burne-JonesPosted onAugust 24, 2015August 24, 2017

The bias against Fanny Cornforth

Sir Edward Burne-Jones used Fanny Cornforth as a model for his unfinished painting, Hope,  above.  Although incomplete, it remains one of my favorite paintings of Fanny.  As…

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