Pre-Raphaelites - Finestre sull'Arte

Waterhouse's *Echo and Narcissus*: When Impossible Love Becomes Eternal

Echo and Narcissus. A young woman and a young man bound by myth. Two lives that intertwine, leading to a sad and tragic ending. Falling in love with an unrequited or impossible love is a source of anguish and death for them, yet neither has ever ce...
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London, Pre-Raphaelite fairy tales from Albert Zuckerman's collection up for auction at Christie's

London is gearing up for a major art sale during Christie's Classic Week, which will auction 20 works from Albert Zuckerman's celebrated collection this summer. The collection, amassed, lived in, and loved by the well-known New York literary agent fo...
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A museum in Scotland displays more than 300 objects related to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais

A private collection of artwork and personal items that belonged to Victorian painter John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896) and his wife Effie Gray, a native of Perth, Scotland, will be made available to the Perth Art Gallery in Sco...
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The serpent woman: Lilith, Eve and the Gorgon, origin and transformation of temptation

Some call it Kundalini, some identify it with the Dragon, and some consider it a cosmic principle. In some religious traditions it takes the form of the Ouroboros, a symbol of eternal return. Within our imagination, the serpent has always exercised a...
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Pre-Raphaelite revolt

The following article is an excerpt from the critical text in the catalog of the exhibition Preraphaelites. Modern Renaissance, directed by Gianfranco Brunelli and curated by Elizabeth Prettejohn , Peter Trippi, Cristina Acidini and Francesco Parisi ...
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The Pre-Raphaelites as never seen before. What the Forli exhibition, the largest ever in Italy, looks like.

It has been almost five years since thelast exhibition in Italy dedicated to the Pre-Raphaelites: in 2019 some eighty works from London's Tate Britain , including masterpieces such as John Everett Millais'sOphelia, John William Waterhouse's Lady of S...
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A major exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelites in Forli in 2024, with more than three hundred works

From Feb. 24 to June 30, 2024, the rooms of the Museo Civico San Domenico in Forlì will host a major exhibition dedicated to the Pre-Raphaelites, conceived and realized by the Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì in collaboration with...
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How a tragic love was rendered in painting: the Ophelia of John Everett Millais

Among the Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces, theOphelia by John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896) in Tate Britain is in this writer's opinion the most disturbing, for it depicts a beautiful young maiden, elegantly attired, drowning in the ...
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