Product Description: Step into the classical world of the mostprominent artist of the Victorian era through this sumptuous volume featuring a selectionof his work.Painter and sculptor Frederic, Lord Leighton is one of the foremost artists of the Victorian classical school...read more

Product Description: In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, the notion of “art for art's sake” became a shared concern: if art is not created for the sake of preaching a moral lesson, or supporting a political cause, or making a fortune, or any other objective, what might art be? Art historian Elizabeth Prettejohn traces the emergence of the debates over this issue in the 1860s and 1870s, focusing especially on the Rossetti, Whistler, Leighton, and other protagonists of the Aesthetic Movement and their paintings—some of the most haunting and memorable images in modern art...read more

Product Description: In 1848 seven inexperienced young artists banded together to form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, one of the first and most distinctive movements in modern art. A century and a half later, their art still has the power to shock, as well as fascinate, its audiences...read more

Product Description: Love Revealed is the first major study devoted to the dramatic career of Simean Solomon (1840-1905), a leading painter of the Pre-Raphaelite group that formed around Dante Gabriel Rossetu in the mid-nineteenth century. Reproducing paintings and drawings rarely seen since their first showing, it explores Solomon's work in the contexts of Aestheticism, Judaism and modern-day studies of masculinity...read more

Product Description: What do we mean when we call a work of art "beautiful"? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and art lovers, but ones that are all too often ignored in discussions of art today...read more

Product Description: What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the Pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centered on literary figures such as Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of writings reinterpreting the art of Frederic Leighton, challenging the view that limits him to the category of "Victorian artist". It extends the discussion beyond Leighton's life and addresses issues such as gender and sexuality, and the artist's identity and self-positioning...read more

Product Description: -- Published to accompany a major 1999 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston -- Sargent's first major retrospective since the memorial exhibitions held after his death in 1925...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the art of Rossetti and his associates as it was influenced by their bohemian lifestyle

Product Description: Includes 150 illustrations, 100 in color.