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Constable prophecies the Decay of English Art—The New Impulse from Italy—The English Renaissance of 1850— Rossetti and the Specialistic Temperament—Classicism of the Eighteenth Century—Influence of the French Revolution— Revival of Romance—Contrast between Mediæval and Modern...
Constable prophecies the Decay of English Art—The New Impulse from Italy—The English Renaissance of 1850— Rossetti and the Specialistic Temperament—Classicism of the Eighteenth...
2. CHAPTER II.Childhood of Rossetti—Religious and Literary Influences—Art Training—Conflict between Imagination and Technique— Friendship with Millais and Holman Hunt—The Westminster Hall Com...
3. CHAPTER III.The Revolt from the Raphaelesque—Influence of Keats and the Romantic Poets—The Pre-Raphaelite Brothers and their Early work—Travels of Rossetti with Hunt—Publication of “The Ger...
4. CHAPTER IV.Influence of Browning and Tennyson—Comparison of Rossetti and Browning—Influence of Dante—Introduction to Miss Siddal—Rossetti’s Water-Colours—Madox Brown and Romantic Realism—T...
5. CHAPTER V.The Pre-Raphaelites as Book-Illustrators—Moxon’s “Tennyson”— The “Oxford and Cambridge Magazine”—The Oxford Frescoes— Oxford Patrons of Millais and Hunt—Departure of Hunt for Pa...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Re-birth of Religious Art—“God, Immortality, Duty”—The Pre-Raphaelites and the Reconstruction of Christianity—The Halo in Painting—Ideals of Womanhood—“The Girlhood of Mary...
7. CHAPTER VII.The Christian Element in Neo-Hellenism and Romance—“How they Met Themselves” and “Michael Scott’s Wooing”—Mediævalism and Romantic Love—“Romeo and Juliet” and “Ophelia”— Millais...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The “Pre-Raphaelite” in Literature—The Complexity of Talent in an Age of Re-birth—The Restoration of Romance in England—The Latin and the Saxon in Rossetti—Latin Diction for the...
9. CHAPTER I.Constable prophesies the Decay of English Art—The new Impulse from Italy—The English Renaissance of 1850—Rossetti and the Specialistic Temperament—Classicism of the Eighteenth C...
10. dim. Art became the slave of tradition instead of the handmaid of aThen the great wave of rebellion, surging through the life of Europe, swept into the deep backwaters of imaginative and creative thought. Men born into the storm and stress of r...
11. CHAPTER II.Childhood of Rossetti—Religious and Literary Influences—Art Training— Conflict between Imagination and Technique—Friendship with Millais and Holman Hunt—The Westminster Competit...
12. CHAPTER III.The Revolt from the Raphaelesque—Influence of Keats and the Romantic Poets—The Pre-Raphaelite Brothers and their Early Work—Travels of Rossetti with Hunt—Publication of “The Ger...
13. CHAPTER IV.Influence of Browning and Tennyson—Comparison of Rossetti and Browning— Influence of Dante—Introduction to Miss Siddal—Rossetti’s Water- colours—Madox Brown and Romantic Realism...
14. CHAPTER V.The Pre-Raphaelites as Book-Illustrators—Moxon’s “Tennyson”—The “Oxford and Cambridge Magazine”—The Oxford Frescoes—Oxford Patrons of Millais and Hunt—Departure of Hunt for Pale...
15. CHAPTER VI.The Re-birth of Religious Art—“God, Immortality, Duty”—The Pre- Raphaelites and the Reconstruction of Christianity—The Halo in Painting—The Responsibility of Womanhood—The “Girl...
16. CHAPTER VII.The Christian Element in Neo-Hellenism and Romance—“How They Met Themselves” and “Michael Scott’s Wooing”—Mediævalism and Romantic Love—“Romeo and Juliet” and “Ophelia”—Millais’...
17. ill. Everything around her speaks of her simple holiness and purity, andBut it is in the presence of the greatest romantic passion known to European poetry—the ideal, immortal love of Dante for Beatrice—that Pre- Raphaelite painting reaches, in the...
18. CHAPTER VIII.The “Pre-Raphaelite” in Literature—The Complexity of Talent in an Age of Re-birth—The Restoration of Romance in England—The Latin and the Saxon in Rossetti—Latin Diction for the...