The Pre-Raphaelites painted some of the most stunning symbolic artworks in the Victorian age. This eBook gives an insight into that symbolic meaning and the realism in their paintings. Their use of colour methods and subject matter are briefly explored so the reader c... Lees meer.

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William Holman Hunt 1827 1910 chronicled the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in this well-illustrated two-volume memoir of 1905 controversially presenting himself as the movement s founding father. Popular when first published it illuminates the search for authenticity o... Lees meer.

Explores the development of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the mid 19th century and works which figure amongst the most lasting and generally propular in British art. Renowned writer and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith contributes a study of the individual artists their... Lees meer.

An entertaining account of an extraordinary cultural and historical event. - the establishment by one highly intelligent woman of a salon of the arts in a beautiful country house in Northumberland. Wallington Hall was remote from the major centres of artistic activity... Lees meer.

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An entertaining account of an extraordinary cultural and historical event. - the establishment by one highly intelligent woman of a salon of the arts in a beautiful country house in Northumberland. Wallington Hall was remote from the major centres of artistic activity... Lees meer.

The long and stellar career of John Everett Millais 1829-1896 has been framed in terms of his rise to notoriety as an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood followed by a compromising descent into comfortable success as a popular painter and leading figure... Lees meer.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born on May 12th 1828 in London England. As a youth he was self-possessed articulate passionate and charismatic but also ardent poetic and feckless . Like his siblings including famed poet Christina Georgina Rossetti he most wished... Lees meer.

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Excerpt from Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Vol. 1 of 2 Art is generally regarded as a light and irresponsible pursuit entailing for its misuse no penalty to the artist or to the nation of which he is a citizen. It is further assumed that a being... Lees meer.

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