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 and you can read the story behind it in the post Love, Death, and Potted Plants. It’s a painting that is hard to walk away from when you see it in person; it’s quite large…
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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 of my favorite Holman Hunt works. 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 Head moth in William…
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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 to her love. He reaches out to her, urging her to speak. It’s a haunting image and the concept had been on the artist’s mind for forty years before he began to paint it. “The…
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Effie Millais, Evelyn De Morgan, fairy tales, Frederick Sandys, Keats, May Morris, Millais, Nature, Ophelia, Paintings, Robert Bateman, Shakespeare, William Holman Hunt
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 striking. Their subject matter often illustrates a compelling narrative, the vibrant hues they used results in a visually arresting effect that commands attention, and who can resist the beauty of a long-haired Pre-Raphaelite Stunner? For…
- Albert Joseph Moore, Alexa Wilding, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Evelyn De Morgan, Henry Alexander Bowler, Millais, Nature, Pre-Raphaelite Subjects and Themes, William Holman Hunt
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 Head moth in William Holman Hunt’s painting The Hireling Shepherd (above). I’ve blogged about it many times before; it’s part of my Shakespeare post that I share yearly on the Bard’s birthday. William Holman Hunt…
