Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Charles West Cope - Maiden Meditation (1847)
Maiden Meditation (1847). Charles West Cope (British, Victorian, 1811-1890). Oil on a gesso ground on canvas. V&A Museum.
This work is painted from a passage from Isaiah: ‘I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, for he hath clothed me with a robe of righteousness.’ The principal figure - a maiden kneeling in the attitude of devotion - is more allusive to prayer than to meditation. This literal rendering of the text is beautiful in its touching simplicity. The features of the maiden are lighted up with the fervour of admiration; but it is to be observed that it is extremely stiff and formal- the only weakness in this strikingly original production.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
”Tears from the depth of some divine despair rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes”
Julia Margaret Cameron
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
William Margetson - ‘The Sea Hath it’s Pearls’ (1897)
http://www.artistsandart.com/2011/07/british-painter-william-henry-margetson.html
Friday, March 15, 2013
John Byam Liston Shaw - Notice Neptune, though . . .
c. 1900
The Studio (1900)
This illustration to Robert Browning's “‘My Last Duchess” has the full title “Notice Neptune, though, / Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, / Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.’ Robert Browning. From a Watercolour by Byam Shaw, R.I.”
The artist has depicted the close of Browning's poem, which appropriately closes with the vicious duke's relating how he tamed his “last” wife, who now survives only in a work of art he owns, with the image of a work of art depicting another act of “taming.”
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
David Cox - Green Man Lane in Brixton
http://www.chrisbeetles.com/gallery/early-english/green-man-lane-n-brixton.html
