For centuries, interest in Shakespeares Hamlet has prioritised its brooding, melancholy prince. Yet, over time, the enigmatic Ophelia, his tragic love interest, has risen to prominence in painting, film, television, and beyond, focused especially on...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040228319)
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the religious and artistic story behind The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt. Created in the mid-nineteenth century, it is often said to be the most widely exhibited work of art in history and...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040228364)
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the religious and artistic story behind The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt. Created in the mid-nineteenth century, it is often said to be the most widely exhibited work of art in history and...Lasīt vairāk
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 Ren...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Apr-2024, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781351004299)
This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three forgotten artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism. Thomas Cooper Gotch, Robert Annin...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Apr-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781351004282)
This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three forgotten artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism. Thomas Cooper Gotch, Robert Annin...Lasīt vairāk
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 Ren...Lasīt vairāk
In the Victorian era, England - swept along by the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite fold, William Morris, and the Arts and Crafts movement - aspired to return to traditional values. Wishing to resurrect the pure and noble forms of the Italia...Lasīt vairāk
Fanny Cornforth was a Victorian supermodel whose face epitomised the vision and life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In their twenty-five years together, she played many parts from muse, medium and lover to housekeeper and nurse....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jul-2022, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526142443)
The twelve murals that Ford Madox Brown painted in Manchester Town Hall are the most important public art project in late nineteenth-century Britain. This ground-breaking book examines them in detail, revealing how they responded to contemporary poli...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jul-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526142450)
The twelve murals that Ford Madox Brown painted in Manchester Town Hall are the most important public art project in late nineteenth-century Britain. This ground-breaking book examines them in detail, revealing how they responded to contemporary poli...Lasīt vairāk
A beautiful art book and travelogue detailing the life and inspirations of Vincent Van Gogh featuring over 250 black-and-white and full-color images."e;With this compact trove of contemporary photographs juxtaposed with Van Goghs artworks, homes...Lasīt vairāk
This volume studies some of Edward Burne-Joness paintings, focusing specifically on his approach to nature, both through his observations about the real, physical world and through his symbolic interpretations of earthly and celestial realms. Burne-...Lasīt vairāk
This volume deals with the various (direct and indirect) connections between literary figures, artists and locations during the Victorian era. It also addresses influential figures from before and after this period, such as William Blake, Sir Joshua...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2019, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Exeter Press, ISBN-13: 9781905816286)
A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John Ruskin (1819-1900).Subjects covered include Ruskin s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2019, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Exeter Press, ISBN-13: 9781905816293)
A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achievements of William Morris (1834-1896) and that of John Ruskin (1819-1900).Subjects covered include Ruskin s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2019, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226594057)
The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrecs iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Towers nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplif...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2019, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226594057)
The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrecs iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Towers nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplif...Lasīt vairāk
The first full edition of the correspondence, between three artists Joanna Boyce, her brother George P. Boyce and Henry Wells, who she eventually married. It dates from the period 1845 to 1861, and covers artistic life in both Paris and London, incl...Lasīt vairāk
When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. A mysterious set of relationships emerged amongst its former owners, revol...Lasīt vairāk
Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of Offshore and The Blue Flower, turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that ne...Lasīt vairāk
A chance encounter with Andrew Lloyd Webber at a summer party sent Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her own familys past. Her great-aunt Amy Gaskell was the subject of a beautiful dark portrait by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edwa...Lasīt vairāk
Evelyn Waughs first book: a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentiethBiography, as books about the dead are capriciously catalogued, is still very much in the modeThis is a...Lasīt vairāk
Biography of three artists closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites whose letters give a vivid insight into the dramas of their personal life.Joanna, George and Henry tells the story of the intertwined lives of three young artists in the 1850s. Wh...Lasīt vairāk
In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morrisā Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian R...Lasīt vairāk
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art. 'A triumph of biographical art.' Independent&a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Dec-2007, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191528194)
Gerard Manley Hopkins initially planned to become a poet-artist. For five years he trained his eye, learned about contemporary art and architecture, and made friends in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. In her fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, C...Lasīt vairāk
Major edition revealing key ideas and events in the lives and work of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and Victorian literary circles: 5,800 letters (including 2,000 previously unpublished letters) to 330 recipients.1855-1862: This nine-volume editionl...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-May-2005, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191516511)
What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and art lovers, but ones...Lasīt vairāk
Following the death of Elizabeth Siddal in 1862 and his settling in Chelsea, Rossetti entered on a period of his life -- charted in volume 3 -- that was marked by renewed activity as a painter and increased financial prosperity.The years 1868-1870 c...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2003, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442675636)
Begun by young rebels committed to revolutionizing the creative arts, Pre-Raphaelitism has moved from the margins of nineteenth-century art and literature to the vanguard of interdisciplinary studies. The term is now used to denote the Pre-Raphael...Lasīt vairāk
Major edition revealing key ideas and events in the lives and work of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and Victorian literary circles: 5,800 letters (including 2,000 previously unpublished letters) to 330 recipients.The best of these letters, flowing r...Lasīt vairāk
