A Little Inspiration

This page is devoted to paintings, pictures, writing, and just about anything I’ve stumbled across, has piqued my interest, and I think might be worth sharing. Hope you enjoy :-)

This is a collection of interpretations of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem “The Lady of Shalott” by various members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holeman Hunt. (Click on the thumbnail picture below to see a larger image.)

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Here is a slideshow of photos I took at a New Orleans Cemetery. So many of the statues are beautiful but haunting.