Depressed muse

:: in May 21, 2014 :: in Blog :: 0 comments

“Ophelia” is one of the most famous 19th-century English paintings. It was created in 1851-52 by John Everett Millais, and is now kept in the Tate Gallery in London. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. In 1848 John Everett Millais, William Holman…

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Medieval version of ancient submarine

:: in March 21, 2014 :: in Blog :: 0 comments

Today we will focus on the miniature from the medieval manuscript. We tend to think that the medieval books were usually religious: the Bibles, the Books of Prayers, the Psalters… meanwhile, the medieval secular culture was actually very rich and obviously there were many non-religious books, containing the poems and…

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A true fairy-tale

:: in January 16, 2014 :: in Blog :: 2 comments

The painting “King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid” by Edward Burne-Jones, was finished in 1884, exhibited in 1884 in the Grosvenor Gallery and bought by Tate Gallery in London in 1900. Edward Burne-Jones is associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, which was created in 1848 by three students…

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