No.12

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. (Plato)

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Music has always been a popular subject for painters and they have depicted everything from angels playing harps to music lessons on the piano.

Many of those paintings are well-known, but I’ve chosen seven which may be unfamiliar to most people.

A Melody, by John William Godward 1861-1922


Francesca, by Edward Charles Hallé 1846-1914


Hush! by James Jacques-Joseph Tissot 1836-1902


Music, Heavenly maid, by Sir Edward John Poynter 1836-1919


The Rehearsal, by Edmund Blair Leighton 1852-1922


Music, by Antoine-Auguste-Ernest Hebert 1817-1908


When apples were golden and songs were sweet, but summer had passed away, by John Melhuish Strudwick 1849-1935.

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The New Year is a good time for new ideas, new plans and new beginnings. I’ve been re-thinking my blogs and am making some changes.

With the exception of Christmas and New Year week-ends, A Touch of Culture will continue on Fridays, Quiet Corner on Mondays, and Wise Men Say daily.
80 plus will become an occasional blog appearing every so often on Thursdays.
The Pre-Raphaelite site will come to an end next week, when 80 paintings will have been collected.
And a new weekly blog The Poetry Path will start on Wednesday 5th January. You can have a look at that website now at -
http://thepoetrypath.blogspot.com

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BEST WISHES TO EVERYONE FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR

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