KB: "One of my favourites is by Millais, The Huguenot..."
UTI could also be interpreted in reference to one of Kate's favorite paintings, The Huguenot, which also deals with tyranny and oppression; and which may have inspired The Dreaming album cover. Maybe UTI reflects the moments leading up to the embrace depicted in the painting, with allusions to the symbolic white-scarf and white rose...
Millais: "It is a scene supposed to take place (as doubtless it did) on the eve of the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day. I shall have two lovers in the act of parting... The girl will be endeavouring to tie the handkerchief round the man's arm, so to save him..."
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre was a wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during the French Wars of Religion. The exact number of fatalities is not known, but it is estimated that anywhere from ten thousand to possibly one-hundred thousand Huguenots died in the violence throughout France.
KB: "One of my favourites is by Millais, The Huguenot..."
UTI could also be interpreted in reference to one of Kate's favorite paintings, The Huguenot, which also deals with tyranny and oppression; and which may have inspired The Dreaming album cover. Maybe UTI reflects the moments leading up to the embrace depicted in the painting, with allusions to the symbolic white-scarf and white rose...
Millais: "It is a scene supposed to take place (as doubtless it did) on the eve of the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day. I shall have two lovers in the act of parting... The girl will be endeavouring to tie the handkerchief round the man's arm, so to save him..."
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre was a wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during the French Wars of Religion. The exact number of fatalities is not known, but it is estimated that anywhere from ten thousand to possibly one-hundred thousand Huguenots died in the violence throughout France.