Search results for: “pre-raphaelites”
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Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900 is an exhibition that opens tomorrow, February 17, 2013, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. With over 130 objects — paintings, sculpture, works on paper and decorative art objects — mostly borrowed from the Tate Britain and the Birmingham Trust in the UK, along with three…
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Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant Garde
My love of British Pre-Raphaelite painting goes back to childhood. I grew up just outside of Wilmington, Delaware, and from an early age my artistic diet was rich in the the glorious storytelling of Howard Pyle and his students, and the dazzling works of the Pre-Raphaelites, both of which are represented by strong collections at…
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The Pre-Raphaelites
Perhaps, like me, you grew up frequenting an art museum in your area and have come to think of some of the works there as familiar “friends”, that you visit periodically; and, just like actual friends, you would miss them if they go away away, on loan to other museums. I had the good fortune…
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Waterhouse’s other Lady of Shalott
‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said The Lady of Shalott, oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 29 inches (100 x 74 cm). Link is to image on Britannica.com. The original is in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. John William Waterhouse, a late 19th century English painter often associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who preceded…
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Holman Hunt’s The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott, William Holman Hunt, oil on canvas, roughly 74 x 58 inches ( 188 x 146 cm), in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, CT. Link is to image file page on Wikipedia. In Alfred Tennyson’s early 19th century poem of the same name, in a reference to the Arthurian…
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Eye Candy for Valentine’s Day: Joseph Noel Paton’s Hesperus
Hesperus, the Evening Star, Sacred to Lovers, Joseph Noel Paton; oil on millboard, roughly 36 x 27 inches (91 x 69 cm). Link it to zoomable image on Art Renewal. There is a larger downloadable file on Arthive. Though not actually a member of the group, Scottish painter Joseph Noel Paton was loosely associated with…