The personalities and careers of Victorian artists, and their social and intellectual context, are explored in this account which aims to reveal how they blended foreign influence with the native British tradition. Artists include the Pre-Raphaelites, Landseer, Frith, Ruskin, Wh…
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…