Wednesday, November 27, 2013
The Art of Slumber blog post
Study for a figure in Burne-Jones’ Briar Rose series
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http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/the-art-of-slumber/
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
John Ruskin
“There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.”
| — | John Ruskin |
Effie Gray
The painting by John Everett Millais, a portrait of Effie Gray who later became his wife
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1088717/Painting-famed-artist-Millais-worth-50-000-discovered-covered-dust-womans-loft.html
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“
Ah, Effie -
You have such sad, wicked ways without knowing it - such sweet silver undertones of innocent voice - that when one hears, one is lost - such slight - short - inevitable - arrowy glances from under the bent eyelashes - such gentle changes of sunny and shadowy expression about the lovely lips - such desperate ways of doing the most innocent things - mercy on us - to hear you ask anybody “whether they take sugar with their peaches”? - don’t you recollect my being “temporarily insane” for all the day afterwards - after hearing you ask such a thing…
”| — | John Ruskin |
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