Description A magnificent new book on the Pre-Raphaelites--oversized, gorgeously illustrated, and packed with insight Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt.
About the Author Aur lie Petiot, who studied at the cole Normale Sup rieure and received her Ph D at the University of Cambridge, is a lecturer in art history at the Uni.
This splendid volume is a must-have for any art history lover.
More than 300 full-color illustrations reproduce all the great Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces, as well as many fascinating lesser-known works, with all the luminous brilliance and detail for which the Pre-Raphaelites are renowned.
Uniquely, the last chapters of the book are devoted to the enduring (yet often underestimated) Pre-Raphaelite influence on the later course of modern art and on our contemporary culture.
She gives particular attention to the role of women in the movement, not only as models and muses, but as pioneering artists in their own right, whose work has only begun to receive its proper recognition.
Petiot offers keen analyses of Pre-Raphaelite painting, drawing, and decorative art alike.
In this authoritative yet highly readable volume, art historian Aur lie Petiot traces Pre-Raphaelitism from its beginnings as a secret brotherhood to its dissemination in multiple strands of British art and beyond.
They also treated religious and contemporary themes with striking realism, bringing viewers into intimate contact with the subject and causing scandal in their time.
Their works drew on Shakespeare, Keats, Tennyson, and medieval lore.
Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, they and their later followers--including Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris--mounted an artistic front against what they saw as the confining standards of the Victorian art world, and the dehumanizing aspects of the industrial age.
These were among the young British artists who, in the revolutionary year of 1848, set out to return a lost vibrancy to European art.
Description A magnificent new book on the Pre-Raphaelites--oversized, gorgeously illustrated, and packed with insight Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt
