Pre Raphaelite Art

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Away from Home



Doctor has told me to stay here in Suffolk for another month. Internet is very limited here.
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Friday, May 2, 2014

The Loving Cup. 1867. Dante Gabriel Rossetti


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Away for a few days



Away for a few days.
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Sara Norton. 1884. Edward Burne-Jones


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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Our English Coasts aka `Strayed Sheep’, 1852, by William Holman Hunt


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A blog to accompany my other art blogs featuring the art and artists labelled as Pre Raphaelite. Though I'm sure it will wander into William Morris, the Arts and Crafts movement and aesthetes and art nouveau.

Books

  • Victorian Masters - Russell Ash
  • Rossetti - David Rodgers
  • Essential Pre-Raphaelites - Lucinda Hawksley
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Circle - by Jan Marsh
  • Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood - by Jan Marsh
  • The Pre-Raphaelites: Romance and Realism - by Laurence des Cars
  • The Pre-Raphaelites - by Christopher Wood
  • Art of the Pre-Raphaelites - by Elizabeth Prettejohn

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    Review: Rossetti's Portraits at the Holburne Museum - Good Lord, it seems an age since I went to see anything pretty. Very slowly the unlocking seems to have become a reality and museums are feeling brave ...
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    3 months ago
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    Review: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland - The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who h...
    3 years ago
  • The Beautiful Necessity
    Why I Haven't Been Here. And Also, a Gorgeous Calendar! - The Beautiful Necessity was my very first blog, started in February 2008. At the time, I lamented that there wasn't more out there for enthusiasts of Pre-...
    6 years ago
  • Jane Morris pre raphaelite Muse
    Dante's Inferno (1967 TV film) -
    7 years ago
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