J.R.S.Stanhope

"Love and the the Maiden" Stanhope's masterpiece! (aesthetic period)

"The Temptation of Eve"

"Thoughts of the past"

"Monument smilling at Grief"

 "The expulsion of Eden"

"knowledge strangling ignorance"

"Penelope"

"Charon and Psyche"

The painter, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope 20 January 1829 — 2 August 1908 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQYZq3DCB2g

He was an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite. His work is also studied within the context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism. His subject matter was mythological, allegorical, biblical, and contemporary. Stanhope was born in Yorkshire, England, and died in Florence, Italy. He was the uncle and teacher of the painter Evelyn De Morgan. Stanhope was the son of John Spencer Stanhope of Horsforth and Cannon Hall, a classical antiquarian who in his youth explored Greece.

E.D.Morgan

"Night and Sleep"

"Flora" 

"The sleeping Earth and Wakening Moon"

"Clytie"

"Evening star over the sea"

"Helen of Troy"

"Boreas and Orietyia" 

"Cassandra"

"Angel of Death"

"Sleep and Death, the children of the night"

"Messenger God"

"The love potion"

"Hope in the prison of Despair"

The painter Evelyn De Morgan, 30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnMF3eyvMLA

She was an English painter whose works were influenced by the style of the Pre - Raphaelite movement. She was a follower of Pre-Raphaelist Edward Burne - Jones.  Her paintings exhibit spirituality use of mythological, biblical, and literary themes, the role of women,light and darkness as metaphors, life and death, and allegories of war.

In August 1883, Evelyn met the ceramicist William De Morgan, and in 5 March 1887, they married. They spent their lives together in London.  De Morgan, a pacifist, expressed her horror at the First World War and South African War in over fifteen war paintings including The Red Cross and S.O.S.

Relative to artistic pursuits, money was unimportant to the De Morgans; any profits from sales of Evelyn's paintings went toward financing William's pottery business and she actively contributed ideas to his ceramics designs.

J.W.Waterhouse

"Ophelia"

"Guthering Rosebunds"

"The soul of the rose"

"Sleep and his half brother Death"

"Sweet summer"

"The awakening of Adonis"

"Anemone"

"Lamia"

"Lady of Shalot"

"Psyche opening the door to the Cupid΄s garden"

"Danaides"

The painter, John William Waterhouse, 6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917

He was an English painter known for working in the Pre - Raphaelite style. Born in Italy to English parents who were both painters, he later moved to London, where he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Art.

He worked several decades after the breakup of the Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood, which had seen its heyday in the mid-nineteenth century, leading to his sobriquet "the modern Pre-Raphaelite". Borrowing stylistic influences not only from the earlier Pre-Raphaelites but also from his contemporaries, the Impressionists, his artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend.

Waterhouse's favorite subjects were  Ophelia and Lady of Shalot. He painted them in different versions and series. Unfortunately, he could not finish the series of Ophelia paintings because he was gravely ill with cancer by 1915. He died two years later, and his grave can be found at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.

J.W.Godward

 "Α fair reflection"  (detail)

 "Carina" (detail)

 "Violets"

"In the Tepidarium"

 
"Athenais"

"When the heart is young"

The painter John William Godward, (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922, Wilton Grove, Wimbledon, England


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lsRjccWQf4

Godward was an English painter from the end of the Victorian Neo - Classicist, and therefore, a follower in theory of Frederic Leighton. He is more closely allied stylistically, however, to Sir Lawrence Alma - Tadema, with whom he shared a penchant for the rendering of Classical architecture, in particular, static landscape features constructed from marble. His style of painting fell out of favour with the rise of  modern art.  
He was born to Sarah Eboral and John Godward (an investment clerk at the Law Life Assurance Society, London). He was the eldest of five children and was named after his father John and grandfather William. He was christened at St. Mary's Church in Battersea on 17 October 1861. The overbearing attitude of his parents made him reclusive and shy later in adulthood. 

He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1887. When he moved to Italy with one of his models in 1912, his family broke off all contact with him and even cut his image from family pictures. Godward returned to England in 1921, suiceded in 1922 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, west London.

Godward quickly established a reputation for his paintings of young women in a classical setting and his ability to convey with sensitivity and technical mastery the feel of contrasting textures, flesh, marble, fur and fabrics. Godward's penchant for creating works of art set in the classical period probably came from the time period in which he was born. The last full-scale classical revival in western painting bloomed in England in the 1860s and flowered there for the next three decades.
       

“In the Tepidarium”

“In the Tepidarium”

“In the Tepidarium”

D.G.Rossetti

"Proserpine" 

 "Pandora"

"The woman of the flame"

 "The Day Dream"

"Mnemosyne"

 "The Salutation of Beatrice"

 "Αrt meets Poetry"

 "Blanzifiore"

"La Pia de Tolomei" 

The painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrHOPQsHGvE&t=66s 

 He was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris  and Edward Burne - Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Asthetic movement.

Rossetti's art was characterised by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence, The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work. He frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures.

Rossetti's personal life was closely linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses  Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth, Fanny Cormforth and Jane Morris.


A typical work of his, "Prosperine" , accompanied with a beautiful poem.

The goddess Proserpine was doomed to spend half the year in the Underworld, because she had partaken of a pomegranate after she was abducted by Pluto. Rossetti began eight canvases with this composition, one of his most powerful. This version is the eighth and last, completed just a few days before his death.  

 
In his Proserpine, the artist illustrates in his typical Pre-Raphaelite style the Greek goddess who lives in the underworld during Winter. Although Rossetti inscribed the date 1874 on the picture, he worked for seven years on eight separate canvases before he finished with it. His Proserpine, like his model  Jane Morris, is an exquisitely beautiful woman, with delicate facial features, slender hands, and flawlessly pale skin set off by her thick raven hair. Rossetti painted it at a time when his mental health was extremely precarious and his love for Jane Morris was at its most obsessive.

Rossetti wrote about Proserpine:

"She is represented in a gloomy corridor of her palace, with the fatal fruit in her hand. As she passes, a gleam strikes on the wall behind her from some inlet suddenly opened, and admitting for a moment the sight of the upper world and she glances furtively towards it, immersed in thought. The incense-burner stands beside her as the attribute of a goddess. The ivy branch in the background may be taken as a symbol of clinging memory"

Rossetti began work on the painting in 1871 and painted at least eight separate versions, the last only completed in 1882, the year of his death

On the top right of the canvas "Proserpine" is inscribed by the artist, followed by his sonnet in Italian. The same sonnet in English is inscribed on the frame:



"Proserpine",   a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Afar away the light that brings cold cheer
Unto this wall, - one instant and no more
Admitted at my distant palace-door.
Afar the flowers of Enna from this drear

Dire fruit, which, tasted once, must thrall me here.
Afar those skies from this Tartarean gray
That chills me: and afar, how far away
The nights shall be from the days that were.

Afar from mine own self I seem, and wing
Strange ways in thought, and listen for a sign:
And still some heart unto some soul doth pine

(Whose sounds mine inner sense is fain to bring
Continually together murmuring,)
'Woe's me for thee, unhappy Proserpine!' 

List with his work 
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