Updates, and a Christmas ghost story on the horizon!
Recent updates & new additions on Guggums Here’s what’s been newly added or freshly updated around the site: Ophelia in…
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On Being Seen (and Misunderstood)
We all know what it feels like when someone looks at us but fails to truly see us. The rush…
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Color Palette: Burne-Jones’ Music
See the standing figure in crimson? She feels like a held note to me; still and focused. While the seated…
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Ophelia
Helping young hearts explore beauty, emotion, and empathy through art When children first encounter John Everett Millais’s Ophelia, they often react…
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How to Introduce Your Kids to Hamlet
Exploring big feelings, brave questions, and timeless storytelling with young hearts Younger children Gentle, Story Only IntroductionsAt this age, children…
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What the Pre-Raphaelites Teach Us About Beauty Today
Beauty can be a slippery thing. It shifts as we age, evolves as the world changes, and often hides beneath…
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Color Palette Inspired by Veronica Veronese
Here’s a color palette inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Veronica Veronese. It's a stunning work filled with rich greens, warm golds,…
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How to Introduce Your Children to Victorian Art
Introducing kids to Victorian art isn’t about lectures or timelines; it’s about opening a window into a world where stories…
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How to Create Color Palettes From Your Favorite Art
One of the quiet joys of loving art is realizing that the colors that move you on a canvas can…
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Art Appreciation for Beginners
Art appreciation can feel intimidating from the outside, full of dates and movements and names you’re worried you’ll pronounce wrong….
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Seeing Clearly: Pre-Raphaelite Thanksgiving Thoughts
Thanksgiving can be a complicated holiday here in America. For many, it’s a day of gratitude, connection, and familiar rituals;…
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What if Princess Leia had stepped out of a Victorian dreamscape?
The moment where two worlds meet: the fierce, determined Leia Organa reimagined as a 19th-century muse, poised between galaxies and…
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Taylor Swift’s Fate of Ophelia
An allegory of survival instead of sorrow.: where Hamlet’s Ophelia sank beneath the river, Swift’s Ophelia is pulled to safety….
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Ophelia Endures
She is more than Hamlet’s doomed beloved. She's a muse, a martyr, a metaphor that has been reimagined through generations:…
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Book Review: The Women of Whitechapel
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A Pre-Raphaelite Look at Hitchcock’s Vertigo
Warning, this post contains spoilers “Do you believe that someone out of the past, someone dead, can enter and take…
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Book Review: Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang
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Into the Dark Wood: Finding Dante Through Art
'Beatrice meeting Dante at a marriage feast, denies him her salutation', Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1855. Model, Elizabeth Siddal “In the…
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