The Pre-Raphaelite city and the trap of modernity by Raphaël Rigal

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Pre-Raphaelite Food Politics or, Feasting on Desire: John Everett Millais, Social Norms and Women by Lidia Mihaela NECULA

“…Renowned for his infamous painting Christ in the House of his Parents (1849-1850) or for The Tragic Story of Ophelia (1851-1852) which brought him domestic and international fame during his lifetime as a British painter, John Everett Millais (1829-1896) is known as one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848), a group of young and idealistic artists determined to instil vibrating energy and novelty into contemporary art which they considered to have been stifled by the prevailing conventions of the Royal Academy. …”
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Paola Spinozzi & Elisa Bizzotto, The Germ: Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics by Béatrice Laurent

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Michaela Giebelhausen & Tim Barringer eds., Writing the Pre-Raphaelites: Text, Context, Subtext by Béatrice Laurent

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Dressed in Nature: Women and Text/Styles in Painting and Literature, from Renaissance Aesthetics to Pre-Raphaelite Poetics and to Art Nouveau Painting by Carmen Concilio, Costanza Mondo

“…This contribution focuses on paintings and poetry, visualizing fashionable design in clothing, such as flowers, foliage and greenery — characterizing pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting. This paper analyses Sandro Botticelli’s Spring (1477–82) and its representation of clothing, flowers and natural patterns which take on transformative, symbolical and connotative traits especially in Chloris’ metamorphosis. …”
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Barrès contre Ruskin by Jessica Desclaux

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THE SCREEN EFFECT OF THE MAGIC MIRROR IN ALFRED LORD TENNYSON’S POEM “THE LADY OF SHALOTT” AND PRE-RAPHAELITE ILLUSTRATIONS / ЭКРАННОСТЬ МАГИЧЕСКОГО ЗЕРКАЛА В ПОЭМЕ А.... by NIKIFOROVA A.E. / НИКИФОРОВА А.Е.

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Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp de Walter Crane : un album pour les « petits enfants » et les critiques d’art by Isabelle Guillaume

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D. G. Rossetti’s Trip to Paris and Belgium: A Journey Between Past and Present by Raphaël Rigal

“…This contact is transcribed through a hybridisation of words and images which builds on the Pre-Raphaelite program and crystallises the two artists’ experience to transmit it to Pre-Raphaelite brothers waiting for them in Britain.…”
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The Fine Art in Structure of John Fowles’ Novel “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” by Oksana Levytska

“…Intermedial analysis allows us to see the relationship of John Fowles’ novel with the Pre-Raphaelite art. In the character context the descriptive component increases literary, cultural and historical contextual characteristics. …”
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« I could not do without medieval Christianity » : transmission et mysticisme dans The Hours de Burne-Jones by Nadezda Seliverstova

“…This analysis makes a comparative study of Byzantine art and Pre-Raphaelite painting, and examines the place of Orthodox art in Burne-Jones’s painting.…”
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Être et paraître dans Miss Brown De Vernon Lee by Catherine Delyfer

“…In her first novel Miss Brown (1884), Vernon Lee painted a critical picture of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement and the Aesthetic circle. She critiqued the ideological underpinnings of the Aesthetic movement, analyzing in particular how the supposedly disinterested artistic creed of art for art’s sake often consisted in intellectualizing and repressing reality by objectifying the body in all its forms. …”
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Sages comme des images ? Les héroïnes sensationnalistes et le monde de la mode by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…In Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1861-1862), the detective must learn to read pictures, from a Pre-Raphaelite portrait to books of beauties, so as to unveil the identity of the eponymous heroine, discovering in the process the way consumer society breeds female duplicity.…”
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Goblin Market de Christina G. Rossetti : « sororité » et tentations d’innocence by George Letissier

“…This paper shows that in Rossetti’s narrative poem the biblical episode of the Fall is permeated by a Pre-Raphaelite form of sensuousness. All the ambivalence of the text stems from its apparent hesitation overcoming temptation, and celebrating the delights the very possibility of temptation offers. …”
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Better Than the Real Thing: Processed Reality in Victorian Art and Fiction by Béatrice Laurent

“…In the 1850s, strategies of aggregation were part of the regular compositional practice of Victorian painters, from the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt to William Powell Frith. …”
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« Never was there a happier partnership » : les illustrations d’Arthur Hughes pour At the Back of the North Wind de George MacDonald by Catherine Persyn

“…George MacDonald and his illustrator and friend the Pre-Raphaelite Arthur Hughes were kindred spirits, whose affinities appear nowhere better than in At the Back of the North Wind, the happiest of many happy collaborations between the two men. …”
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Conversions to Catholicism among Fin de Siècle Writers: A Spiritual and Literary Genealogy by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…They were also influenced by their Pre-Raphaelite predecessors’ interest in the Catholic Middle Ages as well as by their emphasis on the aesthetic dimension of religious experience, and claimed their kinship with the art for art’s sake creed of French Parnassians and Symbolists (Gray, in particular, translated several of Verlaine’s Catholic poems). …”
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Ryuzo Mikimoto and the Ruskin ‘Relics’ Exhibitions of 1926, 1931 and 1933 by Haruka Miki

“…The exhibits included the first editions of The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice, the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ, and Ruskin’s autograph manuscripts, drawings, photographs and letters Ryuzo collected in Britain in the 1920s, amounting to nearly 150 pieces in all. …”
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“Your Letters are as Cordial as a Friend’s Handshake” (Correspondence between André Gide and Fyodor Rosenberg) by Kirill A. Chekalov

“…Social and political reality becomes more and more catastrophic as it invades that highly estheticized, sometimes explicitly Pre-Raphaelite-like universe into which Rosenberg, a refined expert in both Eastern and Western-European cultural traditions, would like to withdraw. …”
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La représentation du relief de Pegwell Bay (Kent) par William DYCE : géomorphosite et peinture de paysage by Dominique Sellier

“…Precision and attention to detail are the major characteristics of this painting, which shares characteristics with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. It reveals attentive observation of nature and an exact representation of mineral elements and landforms, that is to say the objects studied by geomorphology. …”
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