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Tissot spent the last years of his life working on paintings of subjects from the Old Testament. [41] Although he never completed the series, he exhibited 80 of these paintings in Paris in 1901 and engravings after them were published in 1904. [12] The Life of Christ
Life in Squares is a British television mini-series that was broadcast on BBC Two from 27 July to 10 August 2015. [1] [2] [3] The title comes from Dorothy Parker's witticism that the Bloomsbury Group, whose lives it portrays, had "lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles".
Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism.
Giles Lytton Strachey (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ l z ˈ l ɪ t ən ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i /; [1] 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.
Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a Scottish painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group . His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major in the army, and much of his early childhood was spent in India and Burma .
James Walter Gozzard (1861-1926), aka JW Gozzard, was a prolific British genre and figure painter. [1] [2] [3] Artnet stated that he is “best known for his charming depictions in watercolor and oils of quaint scenes of the English countryside and villages.” [4] [5] Invaluable, an online marketplace for fine art, antiques and collectibles, stated that Gozzard “also painted Italian scenes ...
Situated within an orchard, the house and garden were intricately linked in their design. [60] It took a year to construct, [61] and cost Morris £4000 at a time when his fortune was greatly reduced by a dramatic fall in the price of his shares. [62] Burne-Jones described it as "the beautifullest place on Earth." [63]
Charleston Farmhouse, near Lewes, East Sussex. Charleston, in East Sussex, is a property associated with the Bloomsbury group, that is open to the public.It was the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and is an example of their decorative style within a domestic context, representing the fruition of more than sixty years of artistic creativity. [1]