Richard Hawley

absolutely mate, been in rome twice and visited those pics both times, brilliant, and michaelangelo's pieta in st peters is a wonder. do not miss it.

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The list is getting longer and longer ... and we've only got three days ... decisions, decisions

... and poppydog ... the 'sober samantha' ... ... perhaps just as prudence has her beloved, you should have the 'saintly'

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You are lucky , I've still to visit - it's Rome or Florence this year for sure.

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Found this on Flickr -


You can see closer with this link (Bit too big to stick on here - http://farm1.static.flickr.com/210/4498 ... 18f1_o.jpg - it looks to have the typical flat, identikit Burne Jones faces, which make his work easy to spot.
Here's a close-up from the same set -

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It's like the painting he did called golden stairs.

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He painted beautiful pictures but he did not paint portaits (just a few, his daughter, the Baronness des Landes, Lady Windsor, Katie Lewis, Frances Graham, his wife and children, plus a few others).

And his pictures are mostly dreamlike - he was 'the nicest young fellow in dreamland' according to Rossetti.

I have a print of the Golden Stairs alongside Rossetti's Prosperpine.

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DAMN !

that remined me i forgot to see the last day of the holman hunt show in manc and it was yesterday. bugger.

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either one is great but florence is far more romantic, the thing about florence is the renaissance. and it's much smalleryou have to see the uffizi or you're missing the real point of the city. imho.

rome is everything at once. all the history you'll ever need. thousands of years in one city.

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Was he doing a solo show or did he have the Brotherhood band with him?

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Walter Crane at the Whitworth - not sure if it is already on or about to start.

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just holman hunt i think, they had a couple of versions of light of the world. the manchester one is the smaller. in fact he did several, which toured the world at the same time.

walter crane is still on for a while yet.

other good stuff in manc includes this bit of agitprop history at urbis

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I think there are three 'Light of the World' paintings, there's even a book just about them by Jeremy Maas.

I might be coming up for the Walter Crane - the William Morris Society are organising a behind the scenes visit.

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sorry Clive I was being facetious, it made chuckle that you called it 'The Holman Hunt Show' that's all. I managed to get to the exhibition last week, it was pretty smart, Isabella and the Pot of Basil is one of my favourite paintings! Fancy burying your blokes head in a herb pot?

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This thread has tipped my head - I was planning a half-term getaway to somewhere European and cultural - Vienna was in the running, but this thread and the fact that it costs twice as much as it would to go to Vienna for the same amount of time swayed me into booking 5 nights in the Eternal City - I've been before, a few times, but not really to have a serious explore of the things that I really want to see - armed with a decent camera.

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It's a cracking little gallery - I went there on a day trip to Manchester for a Sickert exhibition/conference a few years ago.I was looking on tinternet for the photo of Hunt(not Gareth) at his easel with a rifle (In the Holy Land ) but I can't find it .....

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