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Friday, June 17, 2011

A Far From Model Marriage book review

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  • Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Wikipedia overview)
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A blog to accompany my other art blogs featuring the art and artists labelled as Pre Raphaelite. Though I'm sure it will wander into William Morris, the Arts and Crafts movement and aesthetes and art nouveau.

Books

  • Victorian Masters - Russell Ash
  • Rossetti - David Rodgers
  • Essential Pre-Raphaelites - Lucinda Hawksley
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Circle - by Jan Marsh
  • Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood - by Jan Marsh
  • The Pre-Raphaelites: Romance and Realism - by Laurence des Cars
  • The Pre-Raphaelites - by Christopher Wood
  • Art of the Pre-Raphaelites - by Elizabeth Prettejohn

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