#Birmingham Museum of Art

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Joan Mitchell, Bonjour Julie, (oil on canvas), 1971 [Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL. Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY. © Estate of Joan Mitchell]

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John George Brown (1831-1913) "Three for Five" (1890) Oil on canvas Located in the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, United States

[lionofchaeronea]

St. Paul Shipwrecked on Malta, Laurent de La Hyre, 1630

[mythologypaintings]

Kilhwych, The King's Son

Artist: Arthur Joseph Gaskin (English, 1862-1928)

Date: 1901

Medium: Tempera on panel

Collection: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Louis Tocqué (French, 1696-1772) Marie-Angélique Petitgars Gérard de Livry, Detail, 1750 Birmingham Museum of Art

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Cupid and Psyche - Palace Green Murals - Psyche Receiving the Casket from Proserpine

Artist: Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Crane

Date: 1872-1881

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Description

The more sculpturally classical drapery of the figures in the opening image accords with the sterner mood of the story's beginning. Jealous of Psyche s beauty, the goddess Venus sends Cupid to destroy her: instead, he falls in love with the sleeping princess:

As Love cast down his eyes with a half smile, Godlike and cruel, that faded in a while, And long he stood above her hidden eyes With red lips parted in a god’s surprise.

After performing a series of harrowing tasks, Psyche is finally reunited with Cupid and, forgiven by Venus, is allowed to remain with him as an immortal.

[artandthebible]

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Artist: William Dyce (Scottish, 1806–1864)

Date: 1860

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Birmingham Museums Trust, London, United Kingdom

Samaritan Woman at the Well

The story of the nameless Samaritan woman at the well, recorded only in the Gospel of John, is a revealing one, full of many truths and powerful lessons for us today. The story of the woman at the well follows on the heels of the account of Jesus’ interaction with Nicodemus, a Pharisee and prominent member of the Jewish Sanhedrin (John 3:1–21). In John 4:4–42 we read about Jesus’ conversation with a lone Samaritan woman who had come to get water from a well (known as Jacob’s well) located about a half mile from the city of Sychar in Samaria.

[galleryofart]

The Avenue, Wildernesse, Kent

Artist: Valentine Cameron Prinsep (British, 1838–1904)

Date: 1900

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham, England

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An Idyll

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833–1898)

Date: 1862

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom

[periodinteriors]

William Kenrick, A color sketch of the hall, The Grove, Harborne, c. 1877, watercolor.

[no-tengo-ojos]

Victorian Radicals exhibition at the Museum of Birmingham (2024)

Haha so posting this here aswell because that’s what this blog was originally for but I guess I got sidetracked slightly by Malevolent and other things. But these pre-raphaelite pieces are absolutely gorgeous and I’ve been waiting years to see them in person and I just want to share them with everyone xoxo

First image : The Blind Girl - John Everett Millais (1856)

Second image : Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus - William Holman Hunt (1851)

Third image : Dante - William Holman Hunt (1882-1883)

Fourth image : Prosperine - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1874)

Fifth image : Medea - Frederick Sandys (1868)

Sixth image : The Lady of Pity - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1881)

Seventh image : Morgan le Fay - Frederick Sandys (1864)

Eighth image : Beata Beatrix - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1877)

Ninth image : The Keepsake - Kate Elizabeth Bunce (1899)

More posts of the same to follow

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Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1868

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Roger Chapelain-Midy. La liseuse. 1950-1952. Oil on canvas. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK.

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Title: The Lovers' Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Artist: William Blake (English, 1757-1827) Date: between 1824 and 1827 Genre: religious art; literary painting (illustration of Canto V of Dante's Inferno) Movement: English Romanticism Medium: pen, ink, and watercolor Dimensions: 37 cm (14.6 in) high x 53 cm (20.9 in) wide Location: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England, UK

[mythologypaintings]

Bacchus

Artist: Simeon Solomon (British, 1840-1905)

Date: 1867

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Birmingham Trust Collections, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Description

Bacchus was the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility, equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus. He is often seen with vines of grapes with him. Dionysus was said to be the last god to join the twelve Olympians. Supposedly, Hestia gave up her seat for him. His plants were vines and twirling ivy.

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Albert Bierstadt - Looking Down Yosemite Valley - Can be seen at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.