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Emma Sandys - Elaine




c. 1862-5. Elaine is a heroine of Tennyson's Arthurian poem Idylls of the King

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Edward Burne-Jones




[The Burne-Jones and Morris families in the garden at the Grange, 1874, photograph by Frederick Hollyer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burne-Jones

Saturday, March 20, 2010

John Guille Millais




by Ernest Clarence Elliott, for Elliott & Fry
collotype, published 1904
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=ss&firstRun=true&role=sit&sText=millais&LinkID=mp86388&rNo=0


Hunter, naturalist and gardener; son of Sir John Everett Millais

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Genius in Beauty



[La Donna della Frammia (1870) - Jane Morris]



Beauty like hers is genius. Not the call
Of Homer's or of Dante's heart sublime, --
Not Michael's hand furrowing the zones of time, --
Is more with compassed mysteries musical;
Nay, not in Spring's Summer's sweet footfall
More gathered gifts exuberant Life bequeaths
Than doth this sovereign face, whose love-spell breathes
Even from its shadowed contour on the wall.

As many men are poets in their youth,
But for one sweet-strung soul the wires prolong
Even through all change the indomitable song;
So in likewise the envenomed years, whose tooth
Rends shallower grace with ruin void of truth,
Upon this beauty's power shall wreak no wrong.

Karen Gillan


The new Doctor Who assistant. Where is Rossetti when you need him!


http://www.karengillan.net/

Cupid and Psyche - Psyche




[Cupid and Psyche - Psyche, sent by Venus with a Casket to Proserpine, determines to fling herself from a Tower, but is restrained and assisted by the Voice of a Dead Queen]

By Sir Edward Burne-Jones engraved by George Wardle
1880

http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1913p189/cupid-and-psyche-psyche-sent-by-venus-with-a-casket-to-proserpine-determines-to-fling-herself-from-a/