Worn by the figure of death to obscure its face, as a cowl on a monk’s robes, in religious and academic uniforms, as a chaperon on Dante, and for the traveller when migrating.
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Pre-Raphaelite models, muses and partners, including Effie Gray, ex-wife of John Ruskin, Lizzie Siddal, Annie Miller, Fanny Cornforth, Alexa Wilding, Jane Morris and Maria Zambaco.
With ancient origins, and relatively unusual in wooden panels, round canvases became popular in the Renaissance. Examples by Raphael, Poussin, Tiepolo, Girodet, Richard Dadd and others.
Paintings from cities like London, Paris and Oslo, by Ford Madox Brown, Jean-Louis Forain, Félicien Rops, Christian Krohg, and others.
Popularised with large-format colour printing in the middle of the 19th century, there appear in several paintings where they contribute to the reading.
Featuring paintings of The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, Manfred, Sardanapalus, and two scenes from the second canto of Don Juan.
Views from outside looking up and in, including David and Bathsheba, Romeo and Juliet, an early plein air landscape, and Goya’s majas.
Myths of the strange births of Venus, Bacchus, Helen and Adonis, the Nativity, and Ford Madox Brown’s son.
In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast.
Shackles of the night, in a well, as a rope ladder how Romeo meets Juliet, trussing up a robber, or hanging John Brown, the abolitionist.
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