The paintings of Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti to the music of Bach

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[mairdie]

For jmacusa. A roughly chronological rendering of the paintings and drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), one of the Pre-Raphaelites, to Bach’s Concerto for 3 Harpsichords in C major; Gustav Leonhardt; Herbert Tachezi.

[mairdie]

For those concerned about the quality of art videos, these downloads are available. YouTube mungs the quality of all uploaded video, so these downloads are the excellent "before munging" versions. They download as zip files which I have to double-click to open, and then I play them with VLC.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti	YouTube	Download 210 MB
Frederick Remington	YouTube	Download 148 MB
Tiffany & Lalique	YouTube	Download 221 MB
Art Nouveau	YouTube	Download 33 MB
Alphonse Mucha	YouTube	Download 39 MB
Franz Marc	YouTube	Download 186 MB
Mature Turner	YouTube	Download 215 MB
Young Turner	YouTube	Download 56 MB
Henri Rousseau	YouTube	Download 398 MB
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	YouTube	Download 203 MB
Vincent Van Gogh	YouTube	Download 346 MB
Adoration of the Magi	YouTube	Download 250 MB
Nativity Scenes	YouTube	Download 45 MB
Vicars Book - Nudes	YouTube	Download 67 MB
The Art of Daily Mail	YouTube	Download 25 MB
Landscapes of Daily Mail	YouTube	Download 61 MB
Wild Animals of Daily Mail	YouTube	Download 30 MB
Sea Animals of Daily Mail	YouTube	Download 20 MB
Fireworks	YouTube	Download 266 MB
Melania Trump - Fashion	YouTube	Download 16 MB
Melania Trump - White House	YouTube	Download 59 MB
President Trump	YouTube	Download 25 MB

[mairdie]

PING

[LydiaLong]

How long before all classical music is declared white privilege?

[mairdie]

I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to work to rap.

Next is Joan Baez’s rendition of Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasilianas. Which is sort of screechy, but works for modern art.

[jmacusa]

My wife and I saw an exhibit of the Pre-Rhapalites twenty years ago at The National Gallery in DC. It was breath taking.

[Bob434]

all his women look the same, same mouths, same chins etc- but other than that lovely paintings

[native texan]

What a wonderful post. thank you!

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[etabeta]

Excellent! His Joan of Arc, shown at the very end, is so powerful. Thank you, mairdie!

[etabeta]

Well, if you want to hear an excellent interpretation of the Bachiana #5, listen to Bidú Sayão, favorite singer of Villa-Lobos. They had a long artistic relationship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLZD0XplYrI

[mairdie]

I do enjoy other renditions, but Joan Baez was my youth and where I first heard it, so it’s putting away a memory for me.

[mairdie]

I really hope this is what you wanted, jmacusa. I didn’t have any quartets so this was the closest music I could find on the shelf.

[mairdie]

I thought that, too, when I started, but I finished up by thinking that he had a small pool of models and kept using the same ones over and over again.

http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/rossettis-models/

But when you look at the myriad portraits of people, there’s wide variety of faces and styles.

[mairdie]

I’m so very glad you liked it. Sharing is what makes it all worthwhile.

[mairdie]

Oh, thank YOU, etabeta! I’m having such a wonderful time remembering my college classes. And I’m TERRIBLE at endings and most of my terror and work is getting the last 20 seconds right. As soon as I skimmed ahead to the 1880 bin, I could see I’d be alright this time. Some of his (non-pointy chinned) faces are my favorites.

[jmacusa]

Oh well bless your soul dear. That’s very kind of you. I’m sorry, I didn’t to put you to a task. I thought you were just kind of asking what might be a nice combination, a kind of ‘’has anyone got an idea’’ sort of thing. But thank you just the same. :-)

[jmacusa]

Beautiful mairdie! Bach can be very spirited. It compliments Rossetti beautifully. I’ll say one for Rossetti, he sure had an eye for redheads!

[YogicCowboy]

It has already begun. I returned to school to study music 2000-2007: choral literature.

The preservation of Western/European culture is increasingly becoming a niche academic exercise.

Shakespeare has already been excised from numerous curricula. Can Bach be far behind?

[mairdie]

Not to worry. I intended to get around to Pre-Raphaelites eventually. Your remark just moved the plan forward. Yes, redheads seemed to have obsessed the man. He had a religious Christ described in the literature as “the red-headed Christ.” He seems to have used very few models for his big pieces. I wonder if that’s because friends and family posed for free. It probably didn’t matter when the pieces scattered across UK, but really shows up in a retrospective. What really surprised me was how he built such elaborate chalk sketches that the oils actually matched. Most of the artists I’ve been “collecting” with music just put together a face or hands or a general sense of the scene.