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Previously published as "Artists' Jewellery - Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts", this revised edition records the Pre-Raphaelite period of jewellery design. The Pre-Raphaelites formed one of the four great artistic movements between the mid-1880s and the early 1900s. They were characterized by a rebellious outlook, a distaste for convention and an admiration for the early Renaissance. They believed that decoration as an art form was as worthy as painting and sculpture. Jewellery, often as a symbol of love, was a particularly attractive medium for them. Towards the end of the 19th century their ideas were superseded by the Arts and Crafts Movement with a return to simpler, plain designs which incorporated straight lines and little intricate detail. Artists involved include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, William Holman Hunt, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Charles Voysey. ... Read more

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High Quality Color Reproductions
This book is a good buy with so many high quality color reproductions of art by Pre-Raphaelite artists.The format is reproduction on the right - a short write up on the history and background of thatpainting on the left, often with a similar work or a preliminary sketch reproduced much smaller and set into the text on the left hand side.The one flaw is that sometimes the reproduction spans onto both pages, so that part of the picture lies on the fold.This happens in maybe a third of the pictures.

The descriptions and histories are written for the general public and use clear language.There is also a short general history article at the beginning, but the highlight of the book is the reproductions of art.They are very good quality and plentiful.This is a good buy to own examples of these works.

Artists represented in the full page prints:

William Holman Hunt (11 works)
John Everett Millais (10 works)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18 works)
Walter Howell Deverell (2 works)
GF Watts (2 works)
James Collinson (2 works)
Frederick George Stephens (2 works)
Ford Madox Brown (10 works)
Thomas Woolner (1 work)
William Morris (2 works)
Burne-Jones (12 works)
Alexander Munro (1 work)
Arthur Hughes (10 works)
Elizabeth Siddal (2 works, but not her self portrait *sniff*)
Henry Wallis (3 works)
William Lindsay Windus (1 work)
Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1 work)
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (2 works)
Frederick Sandys (4 works)
Frederic Lord Leighton (3 works)
Simeon Solomon (2 works)
Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1 work)
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tedema (2 works)
Inchbold (1 work)
Charles Edward Halle (2 works)
Evelyn de Morgan (1 work)
John William Waterhouse (5 works)
Anna Lea Merrit (1 work)
E Corbett (1 work)
John Melhuish Strudwick (2 works)
Eleanor Brickdale (2 works)
Edward John Poynter (1 work)

As you can see from the quantity this includes less frequently reproduced works as well as the famous ones.I saw some works reproduced here that I hadn't seen elsewhere, which doesn't happen too often.This is a really good book for high quality reproductions.It would be appropriate for an art teacher to show to classes or a school library that needs a book on this topic. ... Read more

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John Ruskin, the great guru of Victorian artistic culture and the first serious art critic, wrote of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood that 'they would lay the foundation of a school of art nobler than the world has seen for 300 years'.This may seem a highly exalted estimate of a small group of young men scarcely out of their teens, an association which lasted only a few years.Although the names of a number of other painters have been subsequently attached to the group, the Brotherhood, as they call themselves, in fact consisted of only seven members of which only three were significant painters and which makes Ruskin'sview even more surprising.However, in retrospect, the group has acquired a reputation and importance which, if it does not quite fulfill Ruskin's evaluation at the present time, can nevertheless be regarded as an important and revolutionary movement.
The leaders of the Brotherhood, William Holman Hunt, Sir John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are of such different character and technical accomplishment, their followers of such variety, and their impact so dramatic that the story of the whole movement from its beginnings in the Schools of the Royal Academy in London to the 'bohemianism' of their later lives remains fascinating and entertaining.
This examination follows the course of the movement from the exclusivity of the Brotherhood to the eventual artistic and public lives of its members towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign. It includes examples of the work of most of the associated figures and analyses their achievements. ... Read more

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The Pre-Raphaelites, an art history text
The Victorian era seems grand and quite British, but it also conjures up memories of gloom and severity.Victorians are thought of as gentle but determined muckrakers and romantics.This book explores the quite Neo-Classically influenced trend of the Pre-Raphaelites.Heavily influenced by the German Nazarenes in Italy, a group of seven ambitious art school friends got together and, in a few short years, had a major impact on the Era, as did their friends and fringe followers.The most famous name associated with the group is Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and there were two other leaders: William Holman Hunt, and Sir John Everett Milais.The book gives the story of their group and biogaphies of all the artists and writers involved.The art is very spiritual and spooky.It has medieval influences and lots of references to fairy tales.Shakespeare is an important influence.The biographies overwhelm the prints to me.Between 1848-1898the Pre-Raphaelites started a revolution toward what became gothic art in the modern sense.The book has many, many great prints of everything from "Ophelia" to the strange and familiar "The Scapegoat."The poor goat is a haunting symbol of what is wrong with the Era.Oppression seems to surround him.I would love to see more prints and less history.The book is not analytical enough for me, but everybody with an interest in spiritual and spooky art should check out this large glossy pretty thing.It's pretty good. ... Read more

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"THE ART OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITES" BY STEVEN ADAMS. 128 PAGES ... Read more

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The Pre-Raphaelites. 91 Pages with list of illustrations. Hardcover. Illustrations copyright 1970, in Italy, by Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan, Italy. Published in Italy under the title "Mensile D' Art". All right reserved. Printed in Italy. SBN 8415-1018-0. LCCCN 77-122490. (from book) ... Read more