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In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris' Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle (such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt) favoured realism and biblical themes over the academicism of the time. This work, with its captivating text and rich illustrations, describes with enthusiasm this singular movement which notably inspired Art Nouveau and Symbolism.
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Length3 hrs 48 mins
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Publish dateJan 5, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Pre-Raphaelites The Pre-Raphaelites
2The Origins of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
3English Art in 1844
4Taming of
5outcomes of
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6days of Reynolds and Gainsborough.
7twenty-six, Leighton fourteen, and Burne-Jones eleven, and consequently not one of
8favour of a national art.
9of
10friends.”
11as well as other lesser pieces under the title Songs of
12all; that of a dilettante passionate about everything, an improviser speaking about
13by bit like a fresco.”
14of
15Pentelici, The Val d’Arno, Sesame and Lilies, The Queen of
16The Pre-Raphaelite Battle
17the young
18trio of
19him deep in the earth.
20Annunciation.
21funds. William Rossetti
22pressure of
23of
24As for
25together the principal works of
26Pre-Raphaelite ideal. To the applause of
27The Definition and Results of Pre-Raphaelitism
28The Light of
29A more precise and material definition
30If one explains
31Finally, even Ruskin, who
32higher Authority and Master.”
33audacious experiments in the studio, unexpected juxtapositions, and continuous changes
34inspiration to him.
35generalisation of
36lesser quality
37These blood-red sheep in indigo bushes, on rocks like nougat under
38Intentions
39their preoccupations.
40Rossetti, in the extent of
41improvisationist who
42Hunt
43a tuft of
44This same desire
45history and the meaning of
46of
47a sermon and a moral example from them.
48William Morris, Walter Crane, Richmond, Holiday, and all the neo-Pre-Raphaelites – all
49the decoration of
50of