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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Plates bright and vivid. Nice book in great condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Dante Gabriel Rossetti was the central figure of the Pre-Raphaelites. Together with Hunt and Millais he started the original Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and was the ‘poetic inspiration’ of the movement. His turbulent and romantic imagery has always beguiled and intrigued art-lovers. This beautifully illustrated book published to accompany the landmark Rossetti exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Walker in Liverpool is the most thorough and up-to-date analysis of the life and career of this pivotal nineteenth-century English painter available today. It reproduces all of his most famous works in glorious colour and major sections are also devoted to Rossetti’s subjects from Dante; his representations of artists and their models; his drawings of Elizabeth Siddal; the medievalizing watercolours of the late 1850s; his monumental decorative projects at Llandaff Cathedral and at the Oxford Union; and his contributions to the decorative arts in the form of book bindings and illustrations stained glass furniture and picture frames. Julian Treuherz’s essay focuses on Rossetti’s career as co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelites his preference for colourful themes from the Middle Ages and his refined drawings of his beloved Elizabeth Siddal. Elizabeth Prettejohn’s article ‘Beautiful Women with Floral Adjuncts pays tribute to Rossetti’s delightful images of women and Edwin Becker’s contribution focuses on Rossetti’s significance and his impact on the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (MP)