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Ferdinand Knab (1834-1902)

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Sulfur combusts on contact with air to create stunning blue lava-like rivers of light in the Kawah Ijen crater on the island of Java | Ph: Olivier Grunewald

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Garden of Ninfa in Italy

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雨と緑 // Rainy and greenery // Kamakura, Japan ♡

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The Soul of the Rose

Artist: John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917)

Date: 1908

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Description

The Soul of the Rose was painted when Waterhouse was in his creative maturity; he was an artist established with patrons and public alike, who pursued his unique vision whilst adapting to modern precepts regarding style. Archetypally romantic, it is nevertheless executed with fluidity and verve, and leaves the crystalline imagery of the past century behind.

Waterhouse's title is loosely derived from Chaucer's dream poem, Romaunt of the Rose, itself adapted from the 13th-century French romance: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris. The narrator embarks on a pilgrimage with the god of love, who leads him to a rose symbolizing perfect love. The poem had been treated by Waterhouse's early inspiration, Sir Edward-Burne Jones, in preparation for a tapestry. Burne-Jones depicts the rose personified as a young girl in an oil entitled The Heart of the Rose, (1889, Private collection; fig. 1). She embodies the beauty of the sentiment represented, and becomes a love object for the young poet.