The Great Poets: Rossetti and Browning. From the publisher: “Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) were both regarded as the female poet laureates…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote a sonnet inspired by this painting, which you can read a great deal of background on at The Rossetti Archive:…
In this previous post, I mentioned a mirror seen in Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor by Burne-Jones and also in The Return of Tibullus to…
I devoured this book. And I know I will not hesitate to devour it again, its hold over me is that strong. It is a…
I’ve seen this book online many times, but when I happened upon it in the library I could not resist its call. How can I…
The intricate pattern of Sidonia’s gown is amazing. Painted in 1860, Sidonia von Bork is an early watercolor by Burne-Jones and is based on the…
Oh, I hope to be able to purchase this soon! The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and…
Millais, written by Jason Rosenfield and Alison Smith From the Publisher: As a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, John Everett Millais (1829-1896) spearheaded one…
Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art: Few artistic movements capture classic notions of beauty as romantically as the Pre-Raphaelites—a group of nineteenth-century painters and poets…
I mentioned my love for the book Possession in an earlier post, and I have received several emails from people who had never heard of…
It is the end of the year, traditionally a time to make merry and look back and reflect upon our lives. In the spirit of…
This is the first book I’ve featured on this site that is not strictly related to Pre-Raphaelitism. But I purchased this book a few days…
One of the first books I ever purchased about Pre-Raphaelite art was The Pre-Raphaelites. My Pre-Raphaelite library is constantly growing, but this beautiful book remains…
Customer review from Amazon: Ms. Barnes’s coffee-table book is a superb addition to the general art-lover’s library. Lush illustrations and accessible prose make this book…
I recently had the honor of interviewing author Lucinda Hawksley. Hawksley has penned several books, most notably a biography of Elizabeth Siddal and one on…
The Macdonald sisters—Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa-started life in the teeming ranks of the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of…
In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know Lizzie Siddal’s name will recognize her face: she is Millais’s doomed Ophelia and Rossetti’s beatified…
