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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Pre-Raphaelitism"”.
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Pre-Raphaelitism and the professional ideal : art, criticism, and sexuality
… to the development and transformation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood between the late 1840s and the 1880s. The first chapter examines how one might relate the recent theoretical work on nineteenth-century professionalism by Harold Perkin to the distinctive art practice of the …
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The hidden Pre-Raphaelite : the art and writings of Frederic George Stephens from 1848–70
This interdisciplinary thesis presents a fresh assessment of the art and writings of Frederic George Stephens (1827–1907), one of the seven founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, during the period from 1848 until 1870. Despite his centrality within the Pre-Raphaelite circle, and his …
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Studio of Nature: The Transformation of Artists' Studios, 1845–1910
… School, the Hudson River School, Realism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Naturalism, and Impressionism all engaged in plein-air practice to varying degrees. A close engagement not only with physical nature but also with the ideals it represented guided artists working across a variety of artistic …
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A Sign in the Pattern: The Creation of Mary Seton Watts’s Ideal Design in the Compton Mortuary Chapel (Surrey, England, 1898)
… Neo-Romanesque, Celtic Revival, “Second Phase” Pre-Raphaelitism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau. The changes from one style to another are understood as communicating an evolution of ideas concerning the economy of labor and gender roles at a moment of transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth …
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The other cross-channel neighbor: Imagining and appropriating Belgium in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
… of increasingly negative perceptions on the representation of Belgium in Victorian literature, but also those of more positive associations, particularly in the literature that more closely followed Belgium's independence. The study focuses on works by Charlotte Brontë, William Thackeray, Dante …
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The influence of British literature upon pre-Raphaelite painting
<p>It has been the object of the writer, in preparing this thesis, to emphasize the influence of British literature upon the Pre-Rapheelite Brotherhood of painters who lived and worked during the reign of Queen Victoria. It is the hope of the writer to show, in treating these artists who revived …