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''Convent Thoughts'' is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Charles Allston Collins which was created between 1850 and 1851. Collins sent it to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1851 where it was exhibited. The painting shows a nun contemplating a passion flower symbolising the crucifixion of Christ. She is standing in a walled garden full of minutely detailed flowers. In her left hand she holds an illuminated missal, held not as though she had been reading it but so as to show us the Annunciation and the Crucifixion. Her costume shows that she is a novice, presumably meditating on her final vows. The flowers were painted in the Oxford garden of Thomas Combe, an early collector of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and the model was his housemaid, Frances Sarah Ludlow, later Mrs Brucker.〔(Friends of St Sepulchre's Cemetery ). Retrieved 28 May 2015〕 Combe bought the painting; in 1894 he bequeathed his art collection to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and ''Convent Thoughts'' remains in the Museum's collection to the present day.〔(Charles Alston Collins (1828 - 1873) ''Convent Thoughts'' ) Ashmolean. Retrieved 27 May 2015.〕 Although Collins was never formally a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he was in sympathy with their aims and painted in their immensely detailed style. ''Convent Thoughts'' has a place in the history of Pre-Raphaelitism, because the tide of opinion, initially hostile, was to some extent turned by a letter to The Times on 13 May 1851 from the influential critic John Ruskin praising the Pre-Raphaelite paintings at the Academy exhibition, in particular ''Convent Thoughts'', about which he wrote:
In a curious footnote to this story, it has recently been pointed out〔Deas, Elizabeth. "The Missing Alisma: Ruskin's Botanical Error". ''Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies'' (Fall 2001): 4-13〕 that there is in fact no ''Alisma Plantago'' in the picture. ==References and sources== ;References ;Sources *Prettejohn, Elizabeth (2000). ''The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites''. London: Tate Publishing. ISBN 1-85437-313-7. *Barringer, Tim (1998). ''The Pre-Raphaelites''. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-82408-2 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Convent Thoughts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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