Happy September Equinox 2008
Garden Voices (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Persephone with her pomegranate. Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Proserpine (Oil on canvas, 1874) - Tate Gallery, London reBlogged to fall...
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Straight White Guy (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
..... my goodness...... ...... browsing through my library today I stumbled upon this little gem....... check it out..... and yes, read slowly....... it was meant to be read slowly....... Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti At length their long kiss...
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Elizabeth Siddal: The Original Supermodel
adistantsoil.com (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
I am off in San Diego, so posting is light, but I’ve been meaning to blog about this site for some time. It is dedicated to Lizzie Siddal, wife of Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She was his muse, and model, and an artist in her own right, but her entire life is overshadowed by [...]
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Pre-Raphaelite South London (3): Fanny Cornforth
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Fanny Cornforth (1835-1906) was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's lover, before and after the death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal . At the time she met him - probably in late 1857 - she was living in a lodging house in Tenison Street, near Waterloo, and probably working as a prostitute. By her own account she first met Rossetti in the Royal Surrey Gardens , a pleasure garden and Music Hall in Walworth (it covered...
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Wuthering Heights
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
When Dante Gabriel Rossetti read the novel Wuthering Heights, he wrote to a friend: "The action takes place in Hell, but the places, I don't know why, have English names. That is from Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions.
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Christianity Today Annunciation Slideshow
The Cartoon Blog (Free subscription) | 21/12/2007
The Annunciation to the Shepherds | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction The slideshow includes images from artists such as El Greco, Giotto di Bondone, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Blake. But whatever you do don't miss image number 11. As an aside, I happen to know that this will not be the last one [...]
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Poetry Friday: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ushers in the Holiday Season at Semicolon
Semicolon (Free subscription) | 30/11/2007
Here’s a nice antidote to the slappy, happy Christmas music already filling the stores and airways. It's a bit sentimental, perhaps, but definitely, seriously Christmas-y. The picture is also by Rossetti. My Sister’s Sleep She fell asleep on Christmas Eve: At length the long-ungranted shade Of weary eyelids overweigh’d The pain nought else might yet relieve. Our mother, [...]
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Artwork of the Day - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Liverpool Art and Culture (Free subscription) | 23/10/2007
Liverpool artwork of the day - Tuesday October 23 2007. 'Dante's Dream' (1871) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) in The Walker Art Gallery Rossetti had a life-long interest in the Italian poet Dante. This painting shows an...
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti on Atheists
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 04/10/2007
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, artist (1828-1882)
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