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Post by Tim on Jul 20, 2020 13:50:21 GMT
This picture together with Beata Beatrix are my two favourite Pre-Raphaelite paintings! In fact I have a really nice print of BB that I bought at the Tate  I'll have a think about this one . . . . |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 20, 2020 13:58:05 GMT
BB is simply stunning. It's long been a favourite of mine, Tim.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 20, 2020 14:02:55 GMT
My father adored Pre Raphaelite paintings. Not long before he passed away he took my wife and I to the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight which houses a very significant PR collection. The whole area is a fascinating place to visit with its beautiful Arts and Crafts village built to house Lever’s ‘Sunlight Soap’ factory workers.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 20, 2020 16:21:55 GMT
How about Waterhouse? The Lady of Shallot  |
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 20, 2020 17:11:59 GMT
How about Waterhouse? The Lady of Shallot Yes please, I would have that on my wall. It is so good to be beyond criticism IMO. |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 20, 2020 18:12:12 GMT
Ophelia, the painting by John Everett Millais that started this thread.  |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 20, 2020 18:15:46 GMT
Beata Beatrix by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I have seen this painting and it is stunning.  |
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 20, 2020 18:28:55 GMT
The Shadow of Death - Holman Hunt
I have seen this in the flesh at the Manchester City Art Gallery. 
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Post by MartinT on Jul 20, 2020 18:39:18 GMT
We haven't had a Burne-Jones, so here's The Mirror of Venus.  |
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 20, 2020 18:53:11 GMT
I'm looking for a story in that painting but apparently there isn't one as such ...
< The conception is purely aesthetic — a ring of beautiful girls in lovely draperies, with a minimum of narrative of historical content. The draperies are pseudo-classical, and the title is Venus, but the picturer could equally have been given a vague allegorical title. Through the faces of the girls and their wistful expressions Burne-Jones conveys that feeling of intense sadness and nostalgia for the past that pervades so many late Pre-Raphaelite pictures >
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Post by Barrington on Aug 17, 2020 15:45:10 GMT
The Shadow of Death - Holman Hunt
The detail in that is incredible . |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 17, 2020 17:07:42 GMT
Some of the Pre-Raphaelites went for hyper-realism.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 17, 2020 17:33:15 GMT
Jesus reminds me of a very svelte Alan Carr, in Trump-coloured makeup.
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 17, 2020 18:47:09 GMT
I'm hoping to see the collection at Port Sunlight at the end of the month.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 17, 2020 20:09:39 GMT
Another Burne-Jones favourite, The Golden Stairs.  |
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 17, 2020 20:58:09 GMT
Interesting - there's something slightly disturbing about the uniformity of his vision of beauty there.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 17, 2020 21:17:00 GMT
Yes, you can see it repeated in the Mirror of Venus, too.
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 17, 2020 21:32:21 GMT
In this painting it's more affecting though as the girls just dominate the picture ... It's also not just their physical looks, it's the fact they are all around the same age, dressed the same, similar height etc. I wonder who their audience is for this musical performance? And what's the girl who is looking straight at us thinking?
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Post by MartinT on Aug 18, 2020 7:22:45 GMT
I know it's all highly symbolic. Doves feature a lot in PR paintings.
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Post by Barrington on Aug 20, 2020 16:23:36 GMT
I'm hoping to see the collection at Port Sunlight at the end of the month. Still closed Jules . |
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