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We've left #GabrielGiovedi back in 2020 & this year turn to #ThursdayTheme, the subject of the 1st week being: the wombat!
W.Bell Scott's endearing drawing of 1871, Rossetti's caricature of Morris with Jane & Goblin Market illustration 1862 & Beerbohm's 1916 skit of DGR's garden
Rossetti's 'A Christmas Carol' (1867, priv coll) for this year's final #GabrielGiovedi. The PRS will be back posting on Twitter in 2021. In the meantime wishing everyone a very festive but also very safe season & happy holidays, whatever & however you are celebrating!π²βοΈποΈππΌβοΈ
Almost time to put it up- 'Hanging the Mistletoe' (1860, Makins collection) by Rossetti for this week's #GabrielGiovedi
2 versions of 'The Loving Cup' by Rossetti for this week's #GabrielGiovedi. Alexa Wilding (1867, Nat Mus of Western Art, Tokyo) & Ellen Smith (1867, priv coll) award the golden vessel in a courtly competition.
But arguably both chivalric scenes also exude a Christmas atmosphere
Following on from last Thursday, another variation on Rossetti's 'Morning Music' (1867, @BMAGimages) for this week's #GabrielGiovedi. The damsel's hair has become a veritable carpet in this one! She also seems less than impressed by her serenading minstrel.....
Have radio on? Here's a little more 'Morning Music' (1864, Fitzwilliam Mus) for #GabrielGiovedi. What Paul Spencer-Longhurst ('The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s', 2000) calls a 'scene of pampered reverie' with overtones of Giorgione plus a strong strand of Art for Art's Sake.
An exquisite coloured chalk version of 'La Ghirlandata' (1873, Lloyd Webber Coll, acquired 1993 ) for this week's #GabrielGiovedi. Alexa Wilding oozes a soft-focused sensuality. Rossetti apparently gave the picture to Charles Augustus Howell in payment for a Β£70 bill he owed!
Back to beginnings: a very early work 'The Girlhood of Mary Virgin' (1848-9, @Tate) by Rossetti for #GabrielGiovedi. Painted aged 20 & full of Christian symbolism, it features the artist's sister & mother & was the first picture to be exhibited with the mysterious initials βPRBβ.
The changing faces of Rossetti for this week's #GabrielGiovedi: Rebellious & highly romantic self-portrait aged 18 (1847), farouche photo by Lewis Carroll (1863), middle-aged & reflective self-portrait in ink (c.1870) & glowing confidently in oils by G.F.Watts (1871) (all NPG).
Trumpeting Thursday! 'The Wedding of St George' (1864, Art Gallery of New South Wales ), an early watercolour by Rossetti for this week's #GabrielGiovedi. A scene of claustrophobic space recalling medieval manuscript illuminations.
Anyone else feel sorry for the poor dragon?! π²
Some masculine input for this week's #GabrielGiovedi. Although far more associated with female portraiture, Rossetti's studies of men are both sensitive & impressive: head of farmer in 'Found' (1869), Ford Madox Brown (1867), male head study 1850s (Mus. of Fine Arts, Budapest).
Forbidden desires for this #GabrielGiovedi with 'Paolo & Francesca da Rimini' (1855 @Tate).
The tragic story of the adulterous lovers as recounted in Canto V of Dante's Inferno, Rossetti also includes Dante & Virgil regarding with concern the two lovers floating in hell's flames
The biggest sleeves in the business! Today's #GabrielGiovedi features the resplendent 'Monna Vanna' (1866, @Tate). The title of this swirling composition is taken from Dante's Vita Nuova, which Rossetti had translated in October 1848.
The model is the smouldering Alexa Wilding.
A late, brooding & intense work for this week's #GabrielGiovedi: 'The Salutation of Beatrice' (1880-2, Toledo Museum of Art) painted in the final years of Rossetti's life.
If the news this week has all been a bit much, wallowing with the plaintive 'La Pia de Tolomei' may help. The 3rd of these studies (1868 priv.coll) was bought from an Edinburgh bookshop in 1956 by Sir Ivor Batchelor for Β£75 & features Alexa Wilding not Jane Morris #GabrielGiovedi
As the seasons change from Summer to Autumn it seems appropriate to feature Rossetti's hauntingly powerful 'Proseprine' (1874 @Tate) for this week's #GabrielGiovedi, destined to spend half the year with Hades in the Underworld after tasting a single seed of ominous pomegranate...
D.G.Rossetti's 'Autumn Song' (1848) for this week's #GabrielGiovedi. Portrait by G.F.Watts 1871 (NPG)
"Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the heart feels a languid grief
Laid on it for a covering,
And how sleep seems a goodly thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf..."
Just missed #InternationalDogDay but here is a rare canine companion in Rossetti's oeuvre for #GabrielGiovedi: 'Woman holding a Dog' (and stroking it's ear?!) (c.1863, private collection). Provenance history states this drawing was once in the possession of Evelyn Waugh.
Rossetti working on 'The Day Dream' by Frederick Shields (1880 @Ashmolean) for this week's #GabrielGiovedi & the completed work (1880 @V_&_A) & study (@Ashmolean)- a burgeoning study in greens. 'She dreams; till now on her forgotten book/Drops the forgotten blossom from her hand'
2 exquisite chalk portraits for this week's #GabrielGiovedi. 'Jane Morris' (sold at Christies in 2016) & 'Marie Spartali Stillman' (sold at Christies in 2019); both works were formerly in the collection of L.S.Lowry (1887-1976) who ultimately owned 17 works by Rossetti.
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