Circe painting john william waterhouse

Learn about the goddess Circe and working with Circe in your witchcraft practice

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I’ve been a great admirer of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their artistic style for a very long time now. Of all the artists associated with the movement, I think that John William Wate…

One of the most important key figures who helped in continuing the famous Pre-Raphaelite movement, John William Waterhouse, is known for his Classical

The realities of women’s lives are conspicuously absent from the British Museum's Feminine Power, a show about the feminine.

I wrote this poem inspired by the painting Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, by John William Waterhouse, which is currently part of the Feminine Power exhibition at the British Museum (pictured here too). Circe is the enchantress in Greek mythology famous for turning men into pigs. Circe's Test Circe am I, and this place is mine. What brings you here on this day so fine? Whoever comes to disturb my rest must drink this cup and take my test. Circe am I, and this place is mine. Are you a man…

It is one of the most recognizable examples of nineteenth-century British art, intermingling the bygone ideals of the mid-century Pre-Raphaelite movement, the nascent Symbolist ideals in literature and painting, and the detritus of medieval myths and legends that seem to forever linger in the English countryside. Indeed, John William Waterhouse's 1888 painting, "The Lady of Shalott" is a throwback to the ideals and visual lexicon of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood that greatly influenced the…

John William Waterhouse [English Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1849-1917] Oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia: www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/detail.jsp?...