The Pre-Raphaelites: Colour Library: 0000 - Softcover

Rose, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714829072 ISBN 13: 9780714829074

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1998

Synopsis

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had a dynamic influence upon the Victorian era. The painters, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, fought against an increasing mechanized society to establish the artist as a creative individual, attempting to raise art from the triviality into which it had fallen. This commitment was combined with a love of literature and history, and in particular a passionate interest in the art preceding the period of Raphael and the great Renaissance masters, an art which seemed to mirror their aims. Moreover, their ambitions encouraged artists in all fields to adopt new aesthetics.

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Review:

On the Colour Library Series

"Ideal introductions for students and museum-goers."―Independent

"Phaidon’s excellent Colour Library series: [...] a good introduction to nearly 50 key artists and movements in art history."―Antiques Trade Gazette

"The Phaidon Colour Library Series provides an invaluable introduction to key artists and movements in art history."―Art & Craft

Synopsis:

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0714829072
• ISBN 13: 9780714829074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128