A Ballad Of Life

Lindsey taking a selfie whilst walking on the Moschino catwalk. Iconic.

“In a gloomy interior, a man wearing a white armband, rosary beads around his neck, a crucifix fixed upon the brim of his hat and with his sword unsheathed, prepares himself for bloodshed. In the Christian spirit of forgiveness a nun begs for mercy on behalf of the hapless Protestants, but the man pulls her arm away and moves to follow the call to arms indicated by the friar who beckons from the open doorway. The passion flowers and roses placed in the foreground are overblown and withered; the passion flower was a symbol for the suffering of Christ and was often used in Victorian art to indicate a doomed love affair. Here, the wilting flowers indicate that the pious fervour of the Catholic will have a tragic end.” (From Robert Upstone’s excellent The Pre-Raphaelite Dream).

1872

The Rowan Tree Natalia Goncharova 1907-1908

Fleur de lis by Robert Reid | Branches with Almond Blossom by Vincent van Gogh | Amalia de Llano y Dotres, Countess of Vilches by Federico de Madrazo |The anticipated letterby Harry George Theaker|We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian) by Lilly Martin Spencer

Matisse “Odalisca” 1925

Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Olga in a Fur Collar (1923)

Edmund Blair Leighton - Pelleas and Melisande (1910)

The eyes of Vincent van Gogh:Self Portraits, 1886 - 1889.

19th century

They Come - Thomas Cooper Gotch

Sktech from John william waterhouse, he’s one of my favourite painters since several years

1900

John William Waterhouse,Saint Cecilia (detail) 1895.

George Frederic Watts, Ophelia

1880

Sophie Gengembre Anderson - No walk today, 1926