In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite
Adopting a thematic approach, this book navigates a course from analysis of key pre-Raphaelite pictures to their significance within the complex cultural and social matrix of Victorian Britain. Individual chapters...
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 ...
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt.
This work, with its captivating text and rich illustrations, describes with enthusiasm this singular movement which notably inspired Art Nouveau and Symbolism.
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...
"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....
Meet the renegades of Victorian art in this gorgeously illustrated exploration of their work and influence. Starting in the revolutionary year of 1848, the Pre-Raphaelites set out to return a lost vibrancy to British art.
"In recent years there have been excellent one-man exhibitions of the major Pre-Raphaelite artists but no really comprehensive exhibition has ever been devoted to Pre-Raphaelite painting as such. In mounting...
Angela Leighton argues that although Christina Rossetti cultivated and enacted the myth of the Pre - Raphaelite woman ... ( earlier The Pre - Raphaelite Tragedy ( 1942 ) ) with a depiction of a group of remarkable , but baffled idealists ...
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...
It includes examples of the work of most of the associated figures and analyses their achievements.
Richly illustrated, Jan Marsh describes the life of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - a group of young pa inters and poets who caused a furore in staid Victorian Lond on -...
The Pre-Raphaelites
"In recent years there have been excellent one-man exhibitions of the major Pre-Raphaelite artists but no really comprehensive exhibition has ever been devoted to Pre-Raphaelite painting as such. In mounting...
This unique collection demonstrates the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of Pre-Raphaelitism, and contains contains whole texts and key extracts from key Pre-Raphaelite figures such as William Morris, and from less well-known figures.
A vivid account of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, this book documents the artists' lives and the development of their talent.
The Pre-Raphaelites
Illustrated with 100 full-color reproductions, this volume reveals how this influential group succeeded in shaking off the gloom of the Victorian age to greet a new day with uncommonly fresh eyes.