{"id":1107,"date":"2016-01-11T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T02:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2016-01-11T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T02:03:23","slug":"poetry-in-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/2016\/01\/11\/poetry-in-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home to the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art outside the United Kingdom, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delart.org\">Delaware Art Museum<\/a>\u00a0 is a magnet for aficionados of the movement, celebrated\u00a0for its luminous palette, saturated colors and romantic depictions of nobility, nature and religion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Marie_Spartali_1868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1108\" src=\"http:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Marie_Spartali_1868-133x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marie_Spartali_1868\" width=\"133\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Marie_Spartali_1868-133x300.jpg 133w, https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Marie_Spartali_1868.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a>Fair maidens are a recurring theme, yet only a handful of women artists painted their way into the inner circle of the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the museum can get a rare, in-depth look at the work of Marie Spartali Stillman, eldest daughter of the Greek consul-general to London and\u00a0an insider in the Victorian art world. She gained entrance to\u00a0the Pre-Raphaelite circle as a model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the artist and poet, and then as a painter in her own right.<\/p>\n<p><em>Poetry in Beauty<\/em>, the first retrospective of Spartali Stillman\u2019s art, \u00a0showcases \u00a0approximately 50 works by the artist, roughly half the paintings she created in a career that spanned 60 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1935-75-e1446044241349-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1109\" src=\"http:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1935-75-e1446044241349-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"1935-75-e1446044241349-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Her\u00a0style reflects her British Pre-Raphaelite training as well as the influence of Renaissance art, derived from years living and working in Italy with her husband, a prominent journalist, and their three children.<\/p>\n<p>Her paintings also are inspired by Shakespeare, gardens and country life, and many focus on\u00a0women. The museum borrowed the paintings from\u00a0public and private collections in the United States, Britain, and Canada, many shown publicly for the first time\u00a0since Spartali Stillman died in 1927 at age 83. The exhibit runs through Jan. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home to the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art outside the United Kingdom, the Delaware Art Museum\u00a0 is a magnet for aficionados of the movement, celebrated\u00a0for its luminous palette, saturated colors and romantic depictions of nobility, nature and religion. 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