Elizabeth siddal

Persephone is an overlooked deity of the Greek pantheon. As the daughter of Demeter and Zeus and the wife of Hades, she is an important goddess of ancient Greece.

Ophelia 1851, Sir John Everett Millais If there's one thing we've learned over the years, it's to listen to the muse – she usually has the juiciest details behind some of history's most iconic artworks and artists. Today, we travel to the gauzy, sun-dappled world of the romantic pre-Raphaelite pa

a gorgeous young artist who was muse to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. photo from: members.tripod.com/preraphs/people/lsiddal.html

Clerk Saunders by Elizabeth Siddal, 1857, watercolour.

Proserpine ​ There is freedom in Summer, in blue heaven Slurpees and al fresco dining. My lover throws the sheet from his body and the sun stripes his legs like bright stockings. Sometimes we...

This story happens by lamplight, under a copse of trees and at the top of a steep hill, predictably under the cover of night when only the most nefarious deeds are done. It's October and the ground is frosted, but there are men at work with spades and shovels, digging into the soil with some ardour, awaiting

Jane Morris (ne Jane Burden 19 October 1839 26 January 1914) was an English artists' model who embodied the PreRaphaelite ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse to William Morris (18341896), the English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist, whom she later mar