From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #16810 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Sunday, October 19 2025 Volume 14 : Number 16810 Today's Subjects: ----------------- You'll lose nothing if you open it ["Welcome" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:06:34 +0200 From: "Welcome" Subject: You'll lose nothing if you open it You'll lose nothing if you open it http://urbanroot.click/OmaEqUqLmaUL3krLvgU_KrwfpjkoA7RAjZNIJbKvBoZ0C8ge7A http://urbanroot.click/m7bEIcHjE6tKtV_1IZvURc-0p7jd81ZtwUO5_vZUOLKfkUhCxA couraged her son's artistic bent, promoting the relocating of the family to London to help develop contacts at the Royal Academy of Art. He later said "I owe everything to my mother." In 1840, his artistic talent won him a place at the Royal Academy Schools at the still unprecedented age of eleven. While there, he met William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (known as the "PRB") in September 1847 in his family home on Gower Street, off Bedford Square. Pre-Raphaelite works Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents (1849b50) was highly controversial because of its realistic portrayal of a working class Holy Family labouring in a messy carpentry workshop. Later works were also controversial, though less so. Millais achieved popular success with A Huguenot (1851b1852), which depicts a young couple about to be separated because of religious conflicts. He repeated this theme in many later works. All these early works were painted with great attention to detail, often concentrating on the beauty and complexity of the natural world. In paintings such as Ophelia (1851b1852) Millais created dense and elaborate pictorial surfaces based on the integration of naturalistic elements. This approach has been described as a kind of "pictorial eco-system". Mariana is a painting that Millais painted in 1850b51 based on the play Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare and the poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from 1830. In the play, the young Mariana was to be married, but was rejected by her betrothed when her dowry was lost in a shipwreck. This style was promoted by the critic John Ruskin, who had defended the Pre-Raphaelites against their critics. Millais's friendship with Ruskin introduced him to Ruskin's wi ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #16810 ***********************************************