Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 2 Volume Set
Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 2 Volume Set
£84.00
GBPWilliam Holman Hunt (1827–1910) chronicled the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in this well-illustrated two-volume memoir of 1905, controversially presenting himself as the movement's founding father. Popular when first published, it illuminates the search for authenticity of treatment and depth of meaning in his own work and that of Millais, Rossetti and their circle. Stressing the contributions of himself and Millais, Hunt sets out to defend the Brotherhood's ideals, from which he never departed. After his success with The Light of the World, he survived exotic and dangerous travels to create some of the most memorable paintings of the age, such as The Scapegoat (mostly painted by the Dead Sea with a gun at hand) and The Lady of Shalott. The volumes cover the coming together of Millais, Rossetti and their circle, Ruskin's influence, Hunt's journeys to Europe and the Holy Land, his unconventional remarriage and later masterpieces. A polemical 'Retrospect' reasserts the movement's principles.
Product details
June 2013Multiple copy pack
9781108060677
1140 pages
216 × 138 × 64 mm
1.47kg
198 b/w illus.
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. Story of my family
- 2. Am left free for a few weeks
- 3. Armstead and other fellow-students
- 4. Description of Ewell
- 5. Bridger, the mysterious visitor
- 6. Pre-Raphaelitism not Pre-Raphaelism
- 7. Repudiation of faith in immortality
- 8. Rossetti and I in Paris
- 9. Millais unswerving to our purpose
- 10. Inferior places for our pictures this year
- 11. Visit of the two Doyles
- 12. Chelsea
- 13. Mr Charles Maude
- 14. Halt in Paris
- 15. Jaffa Gate
- 16. Start with Sim and join Seddon for Hebron
- 17. I resume work on Temple picture
- 18. Soleiman warns me to hide myself in mountains. Volume 2:
- 1. Dr Sim, Robert, Dick and I go to the Mount of Olives
- 2. A case to prove the honesty of Jewish conversion
- 3. Plain of Merom
- 4. Travel from Marseilles to Paris
- 5. Leighton
- 6. Life school at Kensington
- 7. Visit to Tennyson
- 8. Breakfast with Gladstone
- 9. Jacob Omnium controversy in Times
- 10. Beamont and St Michael's, Cambridge
- 11. Commence Shadow of Death
- 12. Meet Tissot
- 13. Photogravure executed by Goupil
- 14. Commence The Lady of Shalott
- 15. Light of the World
- 16. Criticisms on Claudio and Isabella
- 17. Impressionism.
