Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters

by Asleson, Robyn

• ISBN13: 9781903973394
• ISBN10: 1903973392
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-04
• Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts

Summary

Published to accompany a unique exhibition drawn from the magnificent collection of Lord Lloyd Webber, this book is an opulent record of one man's passion for Victorian art.

Author Biography

Robyn Asleson: formerly Center for Advanced Study, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Tim Barringer: Yale University, New Haven Susan P. Casteras: University of Washington, Seattle Judith Collins: formerly Tate Britain, London Peter Cormack: William Morris Gallery, London Richard Dorment: art historian and critic, London Debra N. Mancoff: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Nancy Rose Marshall University of Wisconsin, Madison Alexander Robertson: Leeds City Art Gallery Jason Rosenfeld: Marymount College, New York Julian Treuherz: National Museums, Liverpool Peter Trippi: Dahesh Museum of Art, New York Stephen Wildman: Ruskin Library, Lancaster

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
President's Foreword	p. 9
Realists and Romantics, Storytellers and Symbolists: Changing Attitudes towards Victorian Painting in the 20th Century	p. 10
Dante Gabriel Rossetti	p. 26
John Everett Millais	p. 44
'Too beautiful not to be true': Edward Burne-Jones	p. 62
The Persistence of Pre-Raphaelitism: From Hughes to Frampton	p. 96
John William Waterhouse	p. 122
'Tracing the finger of God': Landscape Painting in Victorian England	p. 138
Richard Dadd, Contradiction: Oberon and Titania	p. 156
John Atkinson Grimshaw	p. 158
James Joseph Tissot	p. 172
Giovanni Boldini, The Marchesa Luisa Casati	p. 184
Antonio Frilli, Nude Reclining in a Hammock	p. 185
Academics and Classicists: Leighton, Alma-Tadema, Poynter, Moore and Others	p. 186
Painted Fictions: Commemorating the Everyday in Victorian Art	p. 204
Decorative and Applied Arts	p. 228
The Early 20th Century: Munnings, Lowry and Spencer	p. 276
Pablo Picasso, Angel Fernandez de Soto	p. 288
Canaletto, London, The Old Horse Guards from St James's Park	p. 290
Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Prince of Wales, later George IV	p. 292
Catalogue	p. 295
Selected Bibliography	p. 315
Photographic Acknowledgements	p. 316
Index of Artists, Craftsmen and Manufacturers	p. 317
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