The Pre-Raphaelites

Meet the renegades of Victorian art in this gorgeously illustrated exploration of their work and influence. Starting in the revolutionary year of 1848, the Pre-Raphaelites set out to return a lost vibrancy to British art. Together they mounted an artistic front against what they saw as the confining standards of the Victorian art world.

About the author

Aurélie Petiot, who studied at the École Normale Supérieure and received her PhD at the University of Cambridge, is a lecturer in art history at the Université Paris Nanterre. An authority on nineteenth-century British art, Petiot has published her scholarship in such leading journals as the Burlington Magazine and the British Art Journal.

Summary

Meet the renegades of Victorian art in this gorgeously illustrated exploration of their work and influence. Starting in the revolutionary year of 1848, the Pre-Raphaelites set out to return a lost vibrancy to British art. Together they mounted an artistic front against what they saw as the confining standards of the Victorian art world.

Product details

• Authors: Petiot, Aurelie Petiot, Aurélie Petiot, Aurelie Petoit
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2019
• EAN: 9780789213426
• ISBN: 978-0-7892-1342-6
• Dimensions: 279 mm x 330 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 3650 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Pre-Raphaelite, History of Art, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art