Sam Muller wrote:
>
> I'm curious too to know now where there might be other
> famous paintings that feature sundials.
>
An interesting point of focus for the Sundial in Art might also include
Rosetti's Beata Beatrix (1863). Although Rosetti's image may include more foder
for
speculation than I'm willing to 'bother with' the dial itself is clearly an
object of
easy symbolic interpretation. Below is an interesting note about his wife, the
inspiration for the piece as well as some late night digging! Also, a URL to an
image
of it...
"Rossetti ritually commemorated the face of Elizabeth Siddal, a
melancholic
comsumptive who died of a laudanum ovedose shortly after he married her.
Seven
years later, he exhumed her corpse to rescue the sheaf of poems that, in a
Romantic
fit, he had buried with her. He constantly drew and painted Siddal before and
after
her death."
http://www.primenet.com/~byoder/dgrbeta.jpg
Luke
