Product Description: This important book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is the first to explore the fascination of the Pre-Raphaelite painters with Italy: its landscape, art and culture. Covering the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the broadest sense, from its foundation in 1848 to the second generation (including Burne-Jones and Crane), it also includes the works of a group of English artists known as the Etruscans, who were followers of the Italian painter Giovanni Costa...read more

Product Description: The Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites exhibition at the Tate Britain marks the centenary of Ruskin's death. This catalogue examines his role as a contemporary critic by bringing together many of the masterpieces that he wrote about, and exploring his personal links with some of the painters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)