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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Théories géologiques et représentations du paysage dans la première moitié du xixe siècle by Alexis Drahos

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Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

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Barrès contre Ruskin by Jessica Desclaux

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Which Medievalism? The Case of Ford Madox Brown by Laurent Bury

“…Close to the Pre-Raphaelites but never a member of the Brotherhood, Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) remained faithful to their “medieval ideal for a much longer period than any of the actual Brothers. …”
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Walter Crane : de l’album considéré comme un des Beaux-Arts by Isabelle Guillaume

“…Leader of the second generation of Pre-Raphaelites and initiator of the Arts and Crafts movement, Morris advocated the abolition of the hierarchy between artistic practices in favor of the emergence of a homogeneous class of creators producing objects and artworks. …”
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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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« 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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History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums by Yannick Le Pape

“…Dante was definitely popular in Great-Britain, so that it was quite easy for Rossetti to negotiate his works, and no doubt that the emerging speculative collecting for businessmen did limit sales to a short panel of wealthy rivals who took advantage of museums' hesitations about Pre-Raphaelitism — as well as foreign critics focused on Rossetti a bit too late, when his works were already in the English acquisitions field. …”
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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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Laurence Housman (1865–1959): Fairy Tale Teller, Illustrator and Aesthete by Audrey Doussot

“…His four collections of illustrated fairy tales in particular show how his very personal style was a synthesis of various sources and influences that were also those of Aestheticism (Pre-Raphaelitism, Japonism. . .). Published at the beginning of his career, between 1894 and 1904, these fairy tale collections are in keeping with Housman’s conception of book design as a search for aesthetic unity within a book but also with his conviction that art and life are closely linked. …”
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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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