Love Among the Ruins.

[NNadir]

Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898).

Also Cophetua, same artist:

[CBHagman]

1. I love pre-Raphaelite works.

Some years back the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., held an exhibit of Victorian art. Paintings were brought in from the U.K. and many other locations, and of course Burne-Jones was among the artists represented.

[NNadir]

5. I would have liked to have seen that exhibition.

I was thinking of posting something by Burne-Jones's brother-in-law, Edward Poynter.

Maybe I'll do so tomorrow.

[Westegg]

15. Thanks. Been obsessed with the Pre-Raphaelites since childhood.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear NNadir...

These are such beautiful paintings...

But when I read your thread title, I thought it was about the movie with Katherine Hepburn along with some gentleman...

I think it was Katherine anyhow...

Thank you for posting these beautiful paintings!

[darkstar]

3. Hey CP

Me too...kind of...thought it was the Walker Percy novel

There's something about the colors that seems so modern...the color scheme, I suppose...I'm no artist...can't articulate it...but gorgeous....

[NNadir]

6. Thanks, Peg.

I didn't know that there was a movie with that title, but if it's Ms. Hepburn, it's almost certainly worth watching.

For many years, my wife and I used to watch "Bringing Up Baby," about once a month. We never got tired of it.

[CBHagman]

9. Peggy, you're thinking of Laurence Olivier.

And I had precisely the same thought as you: that NNadir was thinking of the classic television film starring Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier as ex-lovers who meet in court. Their director was the great George Cukor.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073310/



For those of you who live in the Washington, D.C., area, there's a small exhibit on Katharine Hepburn at the National Portrait Gallery, and it includes video clips from some of her best work, including Love Among the Ruins.

http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/hepburn/

http://dcist.com/2007/11/02/kate_a_centenni.php

http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/curex1.htm#kate

And for those of you who love pre-Raphaelite paintings, do consider a trip to the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, where you can enjoy their collection.

http://www.delart.org/view/collections/pr_home.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My dear CBHagman!

Oh, yes!

And thank you for all the links...

Wonderful actors, and wonderful movie...

*sigh*

You're never too old to fall in love, are you? I think not...

[CBHagman]

12. Absolutely, CP.

That's something popular culture tends to ignore. :-(

I never did get to see Love Among the Ruins -- I think it's currently out of print in all formats -- but hope to catch it some day. The scene they showed at the NPG was a hoot.

[BarenakedLady]

14. I have it on VHS.

I started collecting her movies years ago before dvds were around.

[BarenakedLady]

13. Thanks!

I would love to go see that exhibit. But at least I got to see it online. :D

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. It's the good life

In the food chain
Love among the ruins
I guess that you've finally got to accept
That there's nothing you can do about it
It's kind'a like carving a turkey
Kind of like mowing the lawn
Everything gets to this certain dimension
Winds up on a customers plate and then gone

Tonio K., "Life in the Food Chain"

[Heidi]

7. Thank you for these art threads, NNadir.

:thumbsup:

[Orrex]

8. 10,000 Maniacs sucked after Natalie Merchant

Brian Ferry covers notwithstanding...

[CBHagman]

10. One of my favorites.

I've seen the pencil-and-paper study, but the painting itself is too fragile to travel. I'll have to go to the U.K. for a glimpse.

Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England.

[Westegg]

16. Beautiful! There's a Derek Jarman film by that title...

...which has (seemingly) nothing to do with that painting, but I highly recommend it to film fans. It's in my Top 10 movies of all time. (Jarman fans are, of course, quite familiar with it already.)