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

“…Despite not being as exotic as the expeditions of Richard Burton or David Livingstone, this trip was particularly meaningful, not only because of the context (the early years of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, soon after the 1848 Revolutions) but also because it was related by Rossetti himself, who wrote a series of poems during the journey and sent them in letters to his brother William Michael and some other members of the Brotherhood. …”
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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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The Pre-Raphaelite city and the trap of modernity by Raphaël Rigal

“…The poetic and pictorial works of the “Pre-Raphaelite galaxy”, as one might call the group formed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and their artistic kindred, exhibit an ambiguous relationship to Victorian modernity and 19th-century technical and political “progress”, especially British urbanisation. …”
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