#preraphaelite art

[i-love-this-art]

Edmund Blair Leighton / "Vanquished" / 1884 / Sotheby’s

[my-sacred-art-2]

Monica Bellucci (Italian, born Sept. 30, 1964).

Jezebel, 1905. Henry John Stock (English, 1853-1930).

Photograph by Fabrizio Ferri (Italian, born 1952) for Esquire Magazine, 2000.

[the-most-sublime-fool]

well i don't know mr dickens, this is all feeling very "old man yells at cloud"

local man considers bending forwards to be "absurd and medieval"

look i will admit that christ's mullet and vaguely smug aura are unfortunate, but what are you doing calling my girl mary ugly?! please.

[elephantlovemedleys]

FINALLY SAW MY GIRL OPHELIA

[thendofera]

John Everett Millais - Ophelia, 1852

[electronicgallery]

Mosaics by Powell and Sons, Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boreham, England, 1888-1915 (source)

St. Michael is regarded as a warrior against Satan (symbolized by the dragon); Gabriel was the angel of the Annunciation (he holds a banner of his opening words, “Hail Mary”, and a lily, a symbol of Mary). Raphael is often depicted walking with the character of Tobias (though I’m not sure why he would here be depicted as a child). Uriel, the angel of light (symbolized by his fiery halo) is often depicted carrying a book or a scroll representing wisdom.

[primal-chasm]

George Frederic Watts: “Choosing”

[ars-historia-est]