[SCA-BMDL] Fwd: Frick buys 16th century manuscript page

[Ruth Morrisson]

Greetings from Myfanwy!
What I remember most about the Frick (I've been there a couple of 
times) was that they have a lot of Pre-Raphaelite era paintings hanging 
up, and a few months ago I went to see a special exhibit of stuff from 
the Arts & Crafts Movement, which kind of dovetails/overlaps with the 
P-R.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the Pre-Raphaelites 
were a group of Victorian era painters and writers who were -- 
effectively -- the Scadians of their day (I'll bet a lot of you have 
posters of paintings of knights on horseback, etc, that look like book 
illustrations -- those are probably P-R works).  The Arts and Crafts 
Movement sort of came out of that (and involved a lot of the same 
people, like William Morris), as a reaction to overblown, overstuffed, 
over-cluttered, and often shoddily constructed Victorian design.
My last semester in college, I was taking an English lit class called 
"King Arthur".  The regular professor missed the first two classes, 
which were picked up by other people.  The second one was on the 
Guenevere tradition, and was taught by the English Dept.'s resident 
Victorian expert.  To prep for the class, we had to read the last two 
sections of Tennyson's _Idylls of the King_ and in class we read 
William Morris' _The Defense of Guenevere_.  The guy goes "Does anyone 
know who William Morris was?" and I go "Yeah, he was one of the 
Pre-Raphaelites, wasn't he?"
"How did you KNOW that?"  "Uh, because I'm a PAINTING major...."
BTW -- for anyone interested, in the poem she defends herself from 
charges of adultery by basically pulling a Jessica Rabbit ("I'm not bad 
-- I'm just drawn that way"!) ....
On Tuesday, January 8, 2008, at 01:13  PM, muirgens at aol.com wrote:

> My sister found this article in the P-G.  
> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08008/847405-42.stm
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> I believe that the Frick does have a decent collection/interest in 
> medieval arts for a small museum.  Tapestries, some metalwork, some 
> ivory carvings (and some Victorian fakes if I recall correctly).  It 
> has been years since I was there last.
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> If you don't know where it is, this is a small building in Point 
> Breeze across from Frick Park on the grounds of Clayton Mansion.
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Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Ruth Morrisson
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