{"id":59,"date":"2003-11-02T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-02T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2011-08-24T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:23:31","slug":"the-johm-william-waterhouse-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"The John William Waterhouse Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Neoclassical (or some would say Pre-Raphaelite) painter John William Waterhouse<\/a>, 1849-1917, is enjoying a posthumous career illustrating books on Paganism.<\/p>\n

His painting “The Sorceress” appears on the cover of Witchcraft Medicine<\/em> — see entry for October 29<\/a> — while “Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses” is on the dust jacket of Ronald Hutton’s latest, Witches, Druids and King Arthur<\/em>, of which I will have more to say soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Neoclassical (or some would say Pre-Raphaelite) painter John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917, is enjoying a posthumous career illustrating books on Paganism. His painting “The Sorceress” appears on the cover of Witchcraft Medicine — see entry for October 29 — while “Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses” is on the dust jacket of Ronald Hutton’s latest, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,7],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paganism","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1249,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1249","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":0},"title":"Montr\u00e9al Magical Mercantile Tour","author":"Chas S. 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