This is the autumn of the PRB. My date with The Tate is looming. I’ll be meeting up with Kirsty of The Kissed Mouth<\/a> and Robyne of Artistic Dress<\/a> on the first Saturday to empty the Tate’s shop of frighteningly expensive fridge magnets. Then, in October, it’s straight to Kelmscott Manor for the little-advertised Edward Burne-Jones exhibition which will probably prove my undoing.<\/p>\n How will you celebrate PRB Day? Catch me on Twitter<\/a> and vote for your favourite painting using #PRBday. I will be baking a cake in honour of great art<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In later life, Rossetti liked to shrug off his connection to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. To admirers, he gently dismissed the whole movement as “the visionary vanities of half a dozen boys.” To which I say “pah!”, because tomorrow is the … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/William_Holman_Hunt_-_Rienzi_vowing_to_obtain_justice.jpg\" "\\"William_Holman_Hunt_-_Rienzi_vowing_to_obtain_justice\\"")
<\/a>I’ve tried to avoid spoilers, but… The Tate has Holman Hunt’s Rienzi<\/em> (full title Rienzi vowing to obtain justice for the death of his young brother, slain in a skirmish between the Colonna and the Orsini factions – <\/em>what were you thinking, Hunt, honestly?) which was on my wall for five years when I was a student and has been hidden away in a private collection for the entire span of my life. Rossetti modeled for the hero, hence the flying saucer eyes and the my-uncle-knew-Lord-Byron-actually hair. That’s Millais, dead on the ironing board. If I can get a long, clear look at it, I’ll be happy for years.<\/p>\n