/r/preraphaelite
A subreddit dedicated to the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
Preferred submission format is: "Title" (Year Created) by Artist (Years of artist) in Location of Artwork.
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Question: What is your favourite pre-Raphaelite artist and painting?
I don’t know how active this sub is, but I’m curious. What is your favourite pre Raphaelite artist and painting?
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Pre-Raphaelite Video Essay
Hello everyone! I’ve spent the past several months working on this video essay about the Pre-Raphaelite movement, as a way to share with people the amazing art in this movement.
It would mean to much hear the thoughts of fellow Pre-Raphaelite fans on this video essay and how I did describing and sharing the splendor of the movement. Thank you!
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The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddal
Hello!
If this violates the rules, please remove but I thought this group might be interested in a kickstarter ending soon.
It includes as one of the rewards a book of Elizabeth Siddal's poems.
Thank you!
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can anyone help identify?
“An underrated female Birmingham pre-Raphaelite awaits recalibration. Somewhere in a church in a village in a forest south-west of Birmingham, a beautiful freestanding screen she painted lies unguarded in a dusty corner.” -
[Stewart Lee, The Observer 14.04.2024] (https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/14/i-value-brummie-art-but-who-else-does-king-kong-stewart-lee-joe-lycett-birmingham)
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La Belle Dame sans Merci (1893) by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
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John Douglas Miller after Frederic Leighton, Summer Slumber, 1898, etching.
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Ellen Terry as Ophelia by Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930). Etching. 1880.
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Ellen Terry as Guinevere costume by Burne-Jones
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Help In Identifty a Painting By Its Description
Hey everyone,
One of the sonnets of Italian poet G. D'Annunzio was written explicitly under the impression of a Pre-Raphaelite painting. It seemingly pictures a majestic-looking woman sitting on a roman sarcophagus made of stone, with an intense gaze in her eyes. The name of the poem is La donna del sarcofago and it was published in 1892. Here is its translation into English I've found online (source):
The Lady of the Grave
The lady with a regal air
above the grand roman grave
sits—over the stonework, which hands had clave
admirably, in full funereal flare—
waiting perhaps for ol’ Oedipus in fate’s snare
to free the superhuman enigma from its cave?
or sister Death whom the knave—
dream cages in the graven marble there?
Her mouth does not voice its plea.
Who will suck the bloody flesh within
that fruit for the essence of the mystery?
She waits. And in those deep impudent eyes,
already shaded by future sin,
there flit the shadows of ancient lies.
D'Annunzio was heavily influenced by Pre-Raphaelite art, and another poem in the same collection of poems, titled Psiche giacente, was written to the painting Cupid Finding Psyche by E. Burne-Jones. So it is possible that the sonnet in question was also written to one of Burne-Jones's paintings, but of course it may not be so.
If any of you have an idea which painting is the inspiration to the sonnet I'll be more than grateful to you!
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