Hellelil and Hildebrand (The Meeting on the Turret Stairs), Frederic William Burton, 1864
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Illustration from 'In Happy far - away land' by Ruth Kimball Gardiner, 1902
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Thursday, January 11.
Beauty, sensuality, art for art's sake.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But it was the most Victorian of times, that much is certain. There was also a lot going on during this period, not least the emergence of a dark, elaborate, and literary fashion—one that would leave its mark well beyond the close of the 19th century.
We have curated just a few of these opulent delights for you this Thursday, January 11, in the hope that you live romantically, sensually, and broodingly. Like the bon vivants you so deserve.
A Cavatina, 1888, Briton Riviere. @eirene
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Study for Joli Coeur, 1866, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Portrait, perhaps of Elizabeth Siddal (1850) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0
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James Hayllar (British/English, 1829-1920) • Going to the Palace • 1863
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"The Flowers Fairies - Violetta and Lilian" from Queen Titania's Book of Fairytales, 1883
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Midsummer Night's Fairies by John George Naish (1856)
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