Why have modern scholars cared about the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili? What do we know about its readers over time? This complex work - and prized artifact - has held different meanings, and attracted ...very different levels of attention, from one discipline to another in the world of Renaissance Studies. Poliphilo's wanderings through the groves of modern academe offer us a field guide to scholars and admirers of the era, and contribute to our understanding now of the humanist movement as an approach not just to books but to life and leisure.
Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain is a remarkable collection of articles which uses the interdisciplinary approach to examine a whole network of correspondences between the arts, literature and ...science, thus conjuring up a new powerful picture of Victorian culture and its tensions over the last three decades of the 19th century. In her article “The Strange Case of the Victorian Sleeping Maid”, Béatrice Laurent, who edited the collection, describes the motif of the Sleeping Beauty as “a c...
Pre-raphaelites Sizeranne, Robert de la
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In the Victorian era, England - swept along by the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite fold, William Morris, and the Arts and Crafts movement - aspired to return to traditional values. Wishing ...to resurrect the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, a group of painters including John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Edward Burne-Jones, favoured Realism and Biblical themes. This work, with its informed text and rich illustrations, enthusiastically describes this singular movement which provided the inspiration for Art Noveau and Symbolism.
English painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) communicates his distinctive aesthetic vision through his use of color. Throughout his career, he experimented with color as an element with ...seemingly spatial qualities. His works have an unusual formalism-figures and settings often appear not merely realistic but somewhat hyperreal. Yet paradoxically Waterhouse's works border on the abstract, prioritizing chromatic features over content. They invite us to focus on colors-and through them line, shape, texture and rhythm-in much the same way as works by Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse or Pollock.
Can there be such a thing as “Arts and Crafts” painting? This article will address that question by interrogating the points of connection between Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Arts and Crafts ...object. Taking its cue from William Morris’s reflection on the “English Pre-Raphaelite School” from 1891, this article examines the interplay between painting and design in both Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Arts and Crafts movement. It addresses the ways in which paintings depicted decorative art, as well as the aspiration of decorative art to the symbolic potential traditionally associated with painting. It is my contention that Pre-Raphaelite painting unleashed a radical possibility for decorative art: the Arts and Crafts belief in the political agency of things.
Striving to distinguish their authority as and demonstrate their professionalism, art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William James Stillman wrote exhibition reviews, essays, and ...increasingly self-conscious histories of American art and artists in the mid-nineteenth century. Whereas their writing has often been employed to establish a model of opposed pre- and post-war periodization in American art, Karen Georgi challenges this view, re-evaluating the rhetorical structures through which they set forth their opinions. Despite apparent differences and transformations in their categorical classifications, she finds commonalities in their definitions of art, as well as deeper commitments to the enduring belief in art’s truthfulness, and its moral and didactic purpose.
This article explores the contradictions resulting from sexual discourse constructed in the nineteenth century from a hegemonic model that determines sexual rigid sex roles of Victorian English ...society. Some literary works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti and Charles Swinburne related with these issues are discussed.
The Pre-Raphaelites Boos, Florence S
Victorian poetry,
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53, Številka:
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Recenzirano
Sloan's reading of "Jenny" concludes that the poem "captures the ultimate damning reality of Victorian masculinity, its infinite capacity for denial"-a view which he believes Rossetti presents ...ironically and at critical distance. Since much of the chapter centers on his interpretation of "Jenny," however, it might also seem useful to consider whether the persona of "Confessional Man" appears in Rossetti's other narratives and sonnets. In "Jane Morris and her Male Correspondents" (JWMS 20.4: 60-78), Peter Faulkner draws together what is known about the four men (excluding her husband) with whom Jane corresponded most frequently-Dante Rossetti, Cormell Price, Wilfred S. Blunt and Philip Webb-and assesses her correspondence with each. Since Jane's relationship with Rossetti has been analyzed in depth by Jan Marsh, Wendy Parkins, and others, and that with Blunt chronicled in Faulkner's edition of their letters, the article's most interesting findings may lie in its untangling of subtle aspects of her other friendships, especially that with Phillip Webb, with whom she shared a sustaining affection based on common cultural tastes and mutual kindnesses.
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