The Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelites

by Christopher Wood (Author)

Synopsis

In 1848 the governments and thrones of Europe were falling. In England politicalrevolution was averted but in that year three young students at the Royal Academy started an artistic revolution that was to reverberate through the rest of the century. Their names were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. They were united in their opposition to the prevailingartistc establishment.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: Phoenix Illustrated
Published: 1997

ISBN 10: 0753802422
ISBN 13: 9780753802427

Author Bio
Christopher Wood is England's leading writer and broadcaster on Victorian art. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, he spent fourteen years working at the London auction house, Christie's, becoming director of nineteenth-century paintings. He started his own gallery, specialising in Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art, in 1977, and now works privately in London.