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featured menuPosted onSeptember 19, 2017October 4, 2018

What Grows from Grief

I have written about William Holman Hunt’s painting Isabella and the Pot of Basil many times before. I included it in a recent Wombat Friday…

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William Holman HuntPosted onApril 2, 2017April 2, 2017

Happy Birthday,William Holman Hunt!

William Holman Hunt, one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was born on this day in 1827.  Today I’d like to share some…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onOctober 31, 2016October 31, 2016

Halloween, Pre-Raphaelites, and Keats

I think Sir John Everett Millais’ painting Speak! Speak! is a perfect Pre-Raphaelite image to share on Halloween.   The ghost of a bride appears…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onOctober 4, 2016October 4, 2016

Botanical Paintings: My Top Picks

An  important hallmark of Pre-Raphaelite art is truth to nature.  Of course, there are many reasons why the art of the Pre-Raphaelites is so visually…

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Albert Joseph MoorePosted onSeptember 22, 2016April 22, 2019

The Symbolism of Lepidoptera

Truth to nature was one of the main tenets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and an excellent example of this can be seen in the Death’s…

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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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Ford Madox BrownPosted onApril 23, 2015June 21, 2016

Pre-Raphaelites and the Bard

If you are looking for Shakespeare inspiration today, you are in luck!  Visit happybirthdayshakespeare.com for a large collective of bloggers sharing posts in honor of the…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onOctober 27, 2014September 20, 2017

Her enchanted hair

And  her enchanted hair was the first gold./And still she sits, young while the earth is old –from Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s sonnet Lady Lilith Lilith…

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George Henry Grenville MantonPosted onJune 16, 2014January 5, 2015

Love, Death and Potted Plants

William Holman Hunt’s Isabella and the Pot of Basil is currently in the news with the recent announcement that the Delaware Art museum will be…

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Image of the WeekPosted onDecember 8, 2013January 5, 2015

Portrait of Fanny Holman Hunt

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