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I'm in love with Pre-Raphaelites aesthetics and was so excited to be a model for a photoshoot in style of Rossetti painting. Thanks to talanted @blueberryeyed for this possibility
Просто обожаю эстетику картин прерафаэлитов, поэтому была невероятно рада побыть моделью для съемки в стиле картины Россетти. Спасибо талантливой @blueberryeyed за такую возможность
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Thrilled to share this straight out of camera sneak peek from a shoot with Bruce Smith, (@portraitphotography2019) at @chateaufengari this week. He really is a master of light and composition... so interesting to watch how he set up and lit this portrait.
Channeling Vermeer and presenting @abigailtaralilly1 as a Pre Raphaelite medieval chatelaine in my blue silk velvet ‘Rossetti’ gown, with the perfect @coast_and_koi iridescent silk slippers and an antique gilded tiara (sourced from @katecullenstyle )contemporaneous with the chateau.
This was taken in the chateau dining room.... I fell in love with the recently restored original wallpaper and the secret panel door, which you can just make out in the background....
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I wonder what it
would be like
to melt into
your sweet arms
and get stuck there
for eternity.
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Everything that’s lovely is but a brief, dreamy kind of delight.As much as I deplore the fleeting seasons it is also their fickle nature that brings me so much delight. I might wish the peonies could bloom forever, but it is the fact they won’t linger that keeps me mesmerized. Lately I’ve been watching spring melt into summer; blossoms fading & green taking over the countryside. PS you can shop this look via @liketoknow.it or this link http://liketk.it/2CWsv #quietinthewild#calmversation#capturequiet#nestandflourish#myseasonalstory#verilymoment#capturingseasons#sheisnotlost#thisjaneaustenlife#vintageinspired#aseasonalstory#womencreate#aseasonalyear#simpleandstill#quietchaotics#asecondofwhimsey#preraphaelite#folkandstory
Destiny, 1900, oil on canvas, 68.6 x 54.6 cm.
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, UK
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Destiny was created specifically for the Artists War Fund.
The fund raised money for British soldiers and their widows during the Boer War which had commenced in 1899. Paintings donated by 350 artists were put on exhibition in the London Guildhall and twelve thousand pounds was raised for the fund via an auction conducted by Christie’s.
Waterhouse’s painting shows a beautiful woman raising a glass to her mouth in a farewell toast for the departing warriors. She appears lost in her thoughts as she stands in what appears to be a loggia, an Italian style outdoor room or corridor with views out to a marshy area. An open book sits on a desk in front of her.
Beside her is a large round mirror in which the viewer can see the reflection of a large, rather ornate globe and two ships sailing out to sea. The use of the mirror is fascinating. Although the size and shape of the mirror obscures the full view of the room which can frustrate the viewer, it also provides a view of the world outside the room on the other side of the building.
Yet the reflection is confusing and does not appear to be totally accurate. The time period in which the painting is set is also ambiguous. Some writers have suggested that the mirror may reflect a vision of the future – an idea which is supported by the title of the painting, Destiny.
John William Waterhouse used mirrors in some of his other paintings including one of his versions of the “Lady of Shalott”, “I am Half Sick of Shadows” and also in “Circe offering the Cup to Ulysses”. Both these paintings feature large, circular mirrors which capture the view outside the setting. His painting of Lady of Shalott working on her tapestry shares some very similar attributes to this painting.