The portrait of Medea by Evelyn de Morgan that I posted not too long ago got me looking at more representations of Medea. When I was looking at the Evelyn de Morgan painting, I found this comment by Whitney Chadwick from Women, Art, and Society: "Evelyn Pickering de Morgan’s Medea of 1889 replaces conventional male representations of Medea as a ( Read more... )

Like Marianne Stokes, Evelyn De Morgan was associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, but unlike Stokes she was directly related to the group. Her uncle, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, was a "second wave" Pre-Raphaelite painter. The Art Magick article about Morgan says of her paintings, "Many do reflect the usual conventions and literary subjects of late ( Read more... )

When I was poking around looking at Symbolist painters recently, I came across Marianne Stokes' meditative portrait of Melisande (from the Maeterlinck play Pelleas and Melisande, which Debussy adapted into an opera). Stokes was not herself a Symbolist, and the Wikipedia article says she started out painting in a rustic naturalist vein but ( Read more... )

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