The Pre-Raphaelites
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the turbulent mid-nineteenth century, a radical band of young British artists dared to challenge the stale conventions of the Royal Academy, igniting one of the most captivating movements in Western art history. Andrea Rose's The Pre-Raphaelites chronicles the founding and flourishing of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood — led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt — whose luminous, richly detailed canvases drew inspiration from medieval and early Renaissance art to produce works of startling beauty, moral intensity, and literary symbolism. Rose presents the movement with both scholarly rigour and accessible clarity, illuminating the personal rivalries, romantic entanglements, and ideological passions that shaped the Brotherhood's evolution. Published by the prestigious Phaidon Press, this volume situates the Pre-Raphaelites within the broader cultural upheaval of Victorian England, arguing for their enduring relevance as pioneers who bridged Romanticism and Modernism. For anyone captivated by the intersection of art, literature, and rebellion, this remains an essential and beautifully reasoned account of a movement that forever transformed the British artistic landscape.
Author: Andrea Rose
Format: Hardback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the turbulent mid-nineteenth century, a radical band of young British artists dared to challenge the stale conventions of the Royal Academy, igniting one of the most captivating movements in Western art history. Andrea Rose's The Pre-Raphaelites chronicles the founding and flourishing of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood — led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt — whose luminous, richly detailed canvases drew inspiration from medieval and early Renaissance art to produce works of startling beauty, moral intensity, and literary symbolism. Rose presents the movement with both scholarly rigour and accessible clarity, illuminating the personal rivalries, romantic entanglements, and ideological passions that shaped the Brotherhood's evolution. Published by the prestigious Phaidon Press, this volume situates the Pre-Raphaelites within the broader cultural upheaval of Victorian England, arguing for their enduring relevance as pioneers who bridged Romanticism and Modernism. For anyone captivated by the intersection of art, literature, and rebellion, this remains an essential and beautifully reasoned account of a movement that forever transformed the British artistic landscape.