Rossetti's eighth and final version of Proserpine (1882) in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
H. Wallis - The Stonebreaker 57
(Poor Law)
Subsumed back into the earth
DG Rossetti & Madox Brown
Beata Beatrix 77
Decorated gold frame - Klimt influence
Deathly beauty
Eliz Siddal (DG's wife)
DGR
Proserpine 81/2
Jane Morris
Only auburn version of 8 - JM was dark
Cf Eve (forbidden fruit)
Simeon Solomon
A Deacon 63
Cf Caravaggio - dark & gay
Compare his face to Proserpine - sensual lips
Wallis
Death of Chatterton 55/6
Small version (big in Tate)
Millais
The proscribed royalist 1651 52/3
Cavalier is Arthur hughes
Lovely chamber scale
Romantic
Madox Brown
An Eng Autumn afternoon 52/3
Hampstead
FMB
Work 63
Heath St
Sandys
Medea 66/8
Klimt
Gilt bg
Women as sorceress cf Morgan Le fay
Holman Hunt
Finding of saviour in temple
54/60
Jesus has got the vibe
Intensity of Preraph
Academic - cold
Bizarre medievalism
Intensity of feeling
Accuracy of detail
William Russell Flint
Silver & Gold 1931
Odalisque
Gatsby
Cheeky nip
Sidney Meteyard - Hope Comforting Love in Bondage (1901)
cf Burne-Jones - Pygmalion & the Image - hopes for love, courtly love, worshipping the female
The Staffordshire Hoard
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