PRE-RAPHAELITISM, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS IN THE GERM.
In her landmark study, The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites, Elizabeth Prettejohn identifies “the burgeoning Victorian interest in the sciences” as one of Pre-Raphaelite art's “most important contemporary contexts” (251). Many critics have seen the at times remorseless detail of early Pre-Raphaelite paint...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Literature & Culture Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 689 - 704 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2015
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