"This title was first published in 2002. 'Memory and Desire' is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of contemporary diaries, letters and art criticism, as well as the analysis of works of a…
The book surveys the personalities and careers of Victorian artists in their social and intellectual context, revealing how they blended foreign influences with rich native British tradition.
"Painting the Bible is the first book to investigate the transformations that religious painting underwent in mid-Victorian England. It charts the emergence of a Protestant realist painting in a period of increasing doubt, scientific discovery and biblical criticism. The book an…
"Painting the Bible is the first book to investigate the transformations that religious painting underwent in mid-Victorian England. It charts the emergence of a Protestant realist painting in a period of increasing doubt, scientific discovery and biblical criticism. The book an…
"Painting the Bible is the first book to investigate the transformations that religious painting underwent in mid-Victorian England. It charts the emergence of a Protestant realist painting in a period of increasing doubt, scientific discovery and biblical criticism. The book an…
Giebelhausen charts the emergence of a Protestant realist painting in a period of increasing doubt, scientific discovery and biblical criticism. She analyzes the position of religious painting in academic discourse and addresses the role Pre-Raphaelite work played in redefining …