ext_185133 ([identity profile] olde-fashioned.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] alexandral 2008-01-25 06:36 am (UTC)

Ha ha! I feel exactly the same way. For a while I'm content with my layout but then I start getting new ideas and I start wanting to change it. ;-)

Yes, they're both beautiful and hauntingly strange in a different, unique way. They're almost "raw" in the sense that they are not "beautified" like some other artists seem to do, but they are not hideously ugly, either. And yes, I believe her name was Elizabeth Siddons, and she was the muse for many artists, IIRC. If we are to accept Rossetti's depictions of her as lifelike, then I would say she had a very dramatic form of beauty.

What do you think of John William Waterhouse?

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