We’re delighted to confirm a wonderful line-up of speakers below for our John Ruskin bicentenary event, Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites: Sacre Conversazioni Timings and biographies will be published in our printed programme for the event. Booking is now live online and... Continue Reading →
This monologue is extracted from the play Easter by August Strindberg (1901) Eleanor (aged 16) has been away in an asylum, and has returned to her family unexpectedly. Her family are disgraced because their father has been sent to prison... Continue Reading →
To the Editor of the Times Sir, I trust that, with your usual kindness and liberality, you will give me room in your columns for a few words respecting the principal Pre-Raphaelite picture in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy... Continue Reading →
‘I mean for my pictures to be a beautiful dream’ Edward Burne-Jones Tate Britain’s major Edward Burne-Jones retrospective closes in a few weeks. The rich petrol teals, the deep blues and the nearly papal purples of the Tate’s sensuous exhibition... Continue Reading →
Dusk-haired and gold-robed o’er the golden wine She stoops, wherein, distilled of death and shame, Sink the black drops; while, lit with fragrant flame, Round her spread board the golden sunflowers shine. Doth Helios here with Hecaté combine (O Circe,... Continue Reading →
In a cloister of S. Miniato without Florence, also, he wrought the lives of the Holy Fathers, chiefly in terra-verde, and partly in colour; wherein he paid little regard to effecting harmony by painting with one colour, as should be... Continue Reading →
Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats, the sun On moustached archaic faces Grinning as if it were all An August Bank Holiday lark; And... Continue Reading →
