Product Description: The Pre-Raphaelite's have captured the public imagination since they first came on the scene up to this year's blockbuster exhibition at the Tate Modern. The first book of its kind to explore the group's body of work, including painting, poetry, and more.

Product Description: Painter and sculptor Frederic, Lord Leighton is one of the foremost artists of the Victorian classical school. His masterpieces featuring mythological subjects are thought to be the inspiration behind the nineteenth-century craze for all things Greek...read more

Product Description: In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, the notion of “art for art's sake” became a shared concern: if art is not created for the sake of preaching a moral lesson, or supporting a political cause, or making a fortune, or any other objective, what might art be? Art historian Elizabeth Prettejohn traces the emergence of the debates over this issue in the 1860s and 1870s, focusing especially on the Rossetti, Whistler, Leighton, and other protagonists of the Aesthetic Movement and their paintings—some of the most haunting and memorable images in modern art...read more

Product Description: In 1848 seven inexperienced young artists banded together to form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, one of the first and most distinctive movements in modern art. A century and a half later, their art still has the power to shock, as well as fascinate, its audiences...read more

What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centred on literary figures. This volume overviews parallel trends in the visual arts and their links with science and morality. (view table of contents)

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Examines the art of Rossetti and his associates as it was influenced by their bohemian lifestyle