![]() It's not that Cameron doesn't do romance - her pride in the match of Mary Ryan, her housemaid, with Henry John Stedman Cotton was expressed through their appearance as Romeo and Juliet on the occasion of their engagement. Anyway, it got me thinking about the the array of meanings of kissing in Cameron's art. These days in church you normally only have to shake someone's hand awkwardly during the Peace, there's no kissing (thank goodness, because it doesn't need to be made more awkward than it already is), unless you belong to the sort of church where you're more relaxed about that sort of thing. A 'kiss of peace' is a traditional Christian greeting, where a blessing of peace is given to the recipient. ![]() Here we have little Elizabeth Keown being kissed on the forehead by Mary Hillier. The Kiss of Peace (1869) Julia Margaret Cameron ![]()
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