Название: The Pre-Raphaelites
Автор(ы): Robert de la Sizeranne
Издательство: Parkstone International
Серия: Art of Century
Год: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-78042-815-4
Страниц: 200
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 60 MB

In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 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 Edward Burne-Jones, in opposition to the academicism of the time, favoured realism and biblical themes over the affected canons of the nineteenth century. This work, with its captivating text and rich illustrations, describes with enthusiasm this singular movement which notably inspired the followers of Art Nouveau and Symbolism.