In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite
The National Portrait Gallery's Character Sketches series provides biographical sketches of a specific group of historical figures from the Gallery's collection of portraits. Each volume examines the public images and...
This illustrated book focuses on the Pre-Raphaelite artists and their radical departure from artistic conventions.
Painter; born to an English family in Virginia, USA; studied at Sass's Academy with DGR; exhibited at the RA, ... Works: Poems (1851); Modern Love and Poems ofthe English Roadside, with poems and ballads (1862); Poems and Lyrics ofthe ...
1 1 3 . I Corinthians 1 3 :1 1—1 2. Letters of Christina Rossetti, vol. I, p. 228. Mackenzie Bell, Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study, facsimile of 4th edn. (New York: Haskell House, 1971), p. 244.
"James Harding's detailed account of the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, from its inception in 1848 to its gradual decline, includes not only all those artists who were members of...
United in their opposition to the artistic establishment, the Pre-Raphaelites were determined to paint their pictures with complete fidelity to nature, using pure and vibrant colours on a white background....
This is the only anthology available that provides a representative selection of the work of these important poets. It will be indispensable to students of Victorian poetry and appreciated by readers interested in the Pre-Raphaelites.
When the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood met in 1848, they were to produce a statement of ideas that would revolutionize artistic practice in pre-Victorian England. This book examines why these ideas still...
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had a dynamic influence upon the Victorian era. The painters, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, fought against an increasing mechanized society...
"A decade later, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris led a second generation of English painters who applied the ideals of the Pre-Raphaelites not only to painting and poetry but also...