The Pre-Raphaelites /
In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris' Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle su...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, USA :
Parkstone International,
[2012]
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Colección: | Art of century collection.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris' Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, in opposition to the academicism of the time, favoured realism and biblical themes over the affected canons of the nineteenth century. This work, with its captivating text and rich illustrations, describes with enthusiasm this si. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (199 pages) : color illustrations. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages194-195) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781780428154 1780428154 9781783103270 1783103272 |