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THE ENCHANTED GARDEN from kendrive ^Pro 16 hours old

[ ... ] before the painting was finished. Christopher Wood wrote, "The painting makes a fitting epitaph, for what is the work of Waterhouse if not an ...

APOLLO AND DAPHNE from kendrive ^Pro 1 day old

Yesterday Waterhouse presented us with a wood nymph and today he brings us another tree figure - Daphne. The interesting story behind the painting is ...

WOOD NYMPH from kendrive ^Pro 2 days old

One traditional symbolic meaning of the female nude is a Nature spirit. One of these, the Hamadryad, represents a stand of oaks. The Hamadryad is noble, ...

MY SWEET ROSE from kendrive ^Pro 7 days old

John William Waterhouse: My Sweet Rose (a.k.a 'The Soul of a Rose') - 1908 "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would ...

IT'S TIME TO CALL IT A DAY from kendrive ^Pro 9 days old

After the Dance John William Waterhouse 1876 The party's over It's time to call it a day They've burst your pretty balloon And taken the moon away It's ...

DANTIS AMOR from kendrive ^Pro 10 days old

Today, a very decorative painting on wood by Rossetti. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dantis Amor 1860 Oil on mahogany This was one of three panels painted ...

SWINBURNE from kendrive ^Pro 11 days old

The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne was a friend of Dante Rossetti and here is a rather sensitive watercolour portrait, painted in 1861. Tomorrow ...

LADY from kendrive ^Pro 13 days old

"Tennyson's poem 'The Lady of Shallott' published in 1883 tells of a woman suffering under an undisclosured curse, and living isolated in a tower near ...

BEATA BEATRIX from kendrive ^Pro 18 days old

[ ... ] of this painting and there are subtle changes in each version. In one version, there is a white dove bringing Beatrice a red poppy. In ...

LADY LILITH from kendrive ^Pro 20 days old

Lady Lilith Dante Gabriel Rossetti based his painting Lady Lilith on a sonnet from his poem 'The House of Life' entitled "Body's Beauty." "Lady ...