Posted in Art, tagged Art, Arts, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gallery, Images, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian on September 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Updated 30/9/2015
If you would like to see more images from the Victoriana album just click below to link or go to the Gallery tab at the top of the homepage (www.lilywight.com).
You can friend/follow Lily Wight on Facebook or follow @Lily_Wight on Twitter xxx
Posted in Books, Victoriana, tagged Arts, books, History, John Guy, Pre-Raphaelite, Prince Albert, Victorian era, Victorian Life, Writers, Writing on June 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Updated 09/06/2014
All these amazing facts have been borrowed from the Snapping-Turtle Guide, Victorian Life by John Guy.
*The average life expectancy for a Victorian city-dweller was a measly 40 years!
*At the beginning of Victoria’s reign (1837) 20% of the population lived in towns. By the end of her reign (1901) this figure had risen to 75%.
*Beer was less than a penny a pint causing problems with drunkenness… especially amongst children.
*This was probably because both boys and girls wore dresses until they reached about five years old.
*Thomas Edison didn’t just invent the phonograph (1877) he suggested talking-books for the blind.
*The Railway Age created affordable travel for all and inspired that Great British pursuit: a day-trip to the seaside!
*Victorian Artists and Poets reacted against The Industrial Age by incorporating romanticised Myths, Legends and The Natural World into their work. (Click the…
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Posted in Art, tagged Art, Arts, Beauty, Features, Galleries, History, Mythology, nude, Nudes, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian on August 16, 2013| 1 Comment »
If it has been a while since you visited The Arcade of Arts & Arcana Gallery then here is a naughty peek at what you’ve been missing!
The Victoriana album is just one of a series of permanent features which are regularly updated and available to view via the Gallery tab at the top of the homepage.
Posted in Art, Reviews, tagged Archer, Automata, Automaton, Bard, Day of The Dead, Dias Los Muertos, Faerie, Fairy, fairy tales, Marionette, Metropolis, Middle-earth, naked, nude, Pre-Raphaelite, Puppet, Rossetti, Sexy Fairy, Sexy Vampire, The Hobbit, topless, Vampire Bride, vampires, Victorian on December 22, 2012| 1 Comment »
There is FREE ENTRY at The Arcade Of Arts & Arcana Gallery all year round!
Enter via the tab at the top of the homepage or click the pics to see more…
Faerie Lore & Fairy Tales
Puppets & Marionettes
Automatons
Victoriana
Grand Guignol
Middle-earth
Posted in Movies, Reviews, tagged Bram Stoker, Costume Design, Dracula, Dracula Armour, Dracula Costume, Dracula Costumes, Eiko Ishioka, Fashion, Francis Ford Coppola, Gary Oldman, Gothic, Horror, Oscar Winners, Pre-Raphaelite, vampires, Victorian era on December 15, 2012| 6 Comments »
If you dust-off June in The Arcade Of Arts & Arcana’s Archives (head to the sidebar on the homepage) you’ll find Pre-Raphaelite strumpets, naughty vintage movies some ridiculous facts about the Victorian Era and a popular post on that favourite guilty pleasure – Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula (click the link to read the original post).
Perhaps it was Eiko Ishioka’s demonic raw-muscle armour that made the post so popular. You can see it again here along with more of Ishioka’s Oscar-winning costumes for Gary Oldman…
Posted in Art, tagged Brian Froud, Christina Rossetti, Fairy, Fairy tale, Folklore, Goblin Market, Literature, Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian on September 23, 2012| 12 Comments »
We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?
“Come buy,” call the goblins
Hobbling down the glen.
“Oh,” cried Lizzie, “Laura, Laura,
You should not peep at goblin men.”
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), Goblin Market.
Posted in Art, tagged Automatons, Autumn Equinox, Brian Froud, clockwork, deviant moon, Fairies, fairy tales, Marionettes, Patrick Valenza, Pinterest, Pre-Raphaelite, puppets, September, Steampunk, Tarot, Victoriana on September 12, 2012| 9 Comments »
It’s all about the pictures at The Arcade this month – although a few words are bound to creep in 😉
The Gallery will be undergoing a well-deserved refurbishment and there will be lots of new images for the albums. If you are a Pinterest user follow the link in the homepage sidebar for some old favourites and exclusive new content.
There are seven Daisy Awards to hand-out this month and don’t forget to stick around for an Autumn Equinox Tarot reading towards the end of September.
Now, just click the pics below to discover or re-visit the image albums…
Puppets & Marionettes
Victoriana
Faerie Lore & Fairy Tales
Deviant Moon
Automatons
Posted in Art, Victoriana, tagged Art, Arts, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Images, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian Paintings on June 30, 2012| 4 Comments »
Updated 30/9/2015
If you would like to see more images from the Victoriana album just click below to link or go to the Gallery tab at the top of the homepage (www.lilywight.com).
You can friend/follow Lily Wight on Facebook or follow @Lily_Wight on Twitter xxx
Posted in Books, Victoriana, tagged Arts, books, History, humor, Humour, John Guy, Pre-Raphaelite, Prince Albert, Victorian, Victorian era, Victorian Life on June 22, 2012| 16 Comments »
Updated 09/06/2014
All these amazing facts have been borrowed from the Snapping-Turtle Guide, Victorian Life by John Guy.
*The average life expectancy for a Victorian city-dweller was a measly 40 years!
*At the beginning of Victoria’s reign (1837) 20% of the population lived in towns. By the end of her reign (1901) this figure had risen to 75%.
*Beer was less than a penny a pint causing problems with drunkenness… especially amongst children.
*This was probably because both boys and girls wore dresses until they reached about five years old.
*Thomas Edison didn’t just invent the phonograph (1877) he suggested talking-books for the blind.
*The Railway Age created affordable travel for all and inspired that Great British pursuit: a day-trip to the seaside!
*Victorian Artists and Poets reacted against The Industrial Age by incorporating romanticised Myths, Legends and The Natural World into their work. (Click the Gallery tab for an album of Pre-Raphaelite paintings.)
*Thank whatever gods you believe in for the invention of chloroform! Available for use on patients as an anaesthetic from 1847.
*According to royal protocol no one is allowed to propose to a queen so Victoria had to ask for Albert’s hand in marriage (and we all know where he kept the ring *warning* this link features adult content)!
*Women (and anything they earned or owned) were considered the property of their husbands or fathers until legal amendments beginning 1882.
Posted in Art, Victoriana, tagged Art, Arts, Flaming June, Frederic Leighton, Images, John William Waterhouse, Pre-Raphaelite, The Lady of Shalott on June 1, 2012| 5 Comments »
Welcome to June at Lily Wight ~ The Arcade of Arts & Arcana.
As The Olympic Flame winds its way around our green and pleasant land and with the nation on the brink of celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee there has never been a better time to be British (please ignore our coalition government and “double-dip” recession).
I am dedicating this month’s musings to the era of another great female monarch, Queen Victoria and her dubiously monikered Age of Empire. Victoria reached her Diamond Jubilee year in 1897 and there is every possibility that, in a few short years, our current reigning queen will wreck her record as Blighty’s longest-serving monarch.
If Victorians are remembered for their conquests and industry perhaps future generations will refer to Ma’am’s subjects as Neo-Elizabethans from The Age of Technology and Terrorism 😦 We are certainly grateful for the extra days off work, the street-parties, the televised pageantry and Wills and Kate 🙂
Our favourite Victorian Pre-Raphaelite maiden, The Lady of Shalott, will be appearing in the homepage
sidebar all month as June’s Magickal Thing (more on her later) just click the pics to link to some new sample images from the brand new Gallery Album ~ Victoriana.
See you back here soon, Blogsprites xx
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