Sunday, March 31, 2013

Why Seek Ye the Living Among the Dead?

John Stanhope

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  1. very Italiantate...was he a desiple of Burne-Jones?

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  2. He was, indeed, associated with Burne-Jones— somewhat of a 2nd wave of the Pre-Raphaelites. I have recently become very interested in that movement, their origins and evolutionary influence on the golden age of illustration, ala Walter Crane and others.

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  3. This is lovely, but everyone in the picture has the same face.

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  4. Yes, yes, it's true. So many of the Pre-Raphaelites found an ideal face for their sensibilities and proceeded to use that same face over and over, painting after painting. Actually, many artists and cartoonists do that, but are a little more subtle in how they pull it off.

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