Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Marie Spartali Stillman

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927) was a Pre-Raphaelite artist.

 Beatrice (1895)

 By a Clear Well with a Little Field (1883)

 Feeding the Doves at Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire

 Love Sonnets (1894)

 Love's Messenger (1885)

 Self-Portrait (1871)

 Self-Portrait

 The Childhood of Saint Cecily (1883)

 The Enchanted Garden of Messer Ansaldo (1889)

 The Pilgrim Folk (1914)

The Spring Witch

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

John William Waterhouse, ctd

Waterhouse, the final set.

 The Household Gods (1880)

 The Lady of Shalott (1888)

 The Soul of the Rose (1908)

 The Toilet (1889)

 Tristan and Isolde Sharing the Potion (1905)

 Tristan and Isolde (1916)

 Two Little Italian Girls by a Village (1875)

 Undine (1872)

Ulysses and the Sirens (1891)

Monday, July 16, 2012

John William Waterhouse, ctd

Penelope and the Suitors (1912)

 Saint Cecilia (1895)

 Saint Eulalia (1885)

 The Sorceress (1913)

 The Annunciation (1914)

 The Crystal Ball (1902)

 The Enchanted Garden (1916)

 The Favorites of the Emperor Honorius (1883)

The Flower Picker (1900)

Friday, July 13, 2012

John William Waterhouse, ctd

 Gathering Flowers (1893)

 'I am half sick of shadows,' said the Lady of Shalott (1915)
[from A.L. Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott"]

 Jason and Medea (1907)

 Juliet (1898)

 Lamia and the Knight (1905)

 Listening to his Sweet Pipings (1911)

 Mariamne Leaving the Judgement Seat of Herod (1887)
[Mariamne was Herod's second wife. Her story is here.]

 Ophelia Resting (1889)

 Ophelia Seated (1894)

Ophelia (1905)

Thursday, July 12, 2012

John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style.

 A Naiad (1905)

 A Tale from the Decameron (1916)
[about The Decameron]

 At the Shrine (1895)

 Circe Invidiosa (1892)

 Consulting the Oracle (1882)

 Diogenes (1905)

 Fair Rosamund (1905)
["Fair Rosamund" was the mistress of King Henry II. Lurking in the background in this painting can be seen Queen Eleanor (of Acquitaine) who, rumor has it, had Rosamund killed.]

 Flora (1890)

 Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (1909)

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (1908)

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Herbert James Draper, ctd

 Mourning for Icarus (1898)

 The Gates of Dawn (1900)

 The Kelpie (1913)
[based on this myth]

 The Pearls of Aphrodite (1907)

 The Sea Maiden (1894)

 The Water Nymph (1909)

 Tristan and Isolde (1901)

Ulysses and the Sirens (1909)