Pre-Raphaelites (Essential)

Lucinda Hawksley

ISBN 10: 1405423277 / ISBN 13: 9781405423274

Published by Parragon, 2003

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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Seller Inventory # CHL10686121

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pre-Raphaelites (Essential)
• Publisher: Parragon
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405423277
• ISBN 13: 9781405423274
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

In 1848 a group of seven disillusioned artists, comprising the Rossettis, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Frederic Stephens, Thomas Wooner, and James Collinson, formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Initially they were ridiculed in the art world for their pretension and subject matter, but ten years after their foundation no self-respecting Victorian would admit to being ignorant of Pre-Raphaelite art.

The movement later began to change direction as new influences were brought to bear on the group; Dante Gabriel Rossetti came to the fore alongside artists such as Walter Howell Deverell and Edward Burne-Jones, as well as William Morris, the founding father of the Arts and Crafts movement. Essential Pre-Raphaelitesexamines the work of the movement, its loosely affiliated personalities, diverse subject matter, and profound effect on nineteenth-and twentieth-century art.