Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the ArtsLiana Cheney The common thread that joins the essays in this volume is drawn from the rich tapestry of pre-Raphaelite art and literature and its medieval legacy. This edition presents an interdisciplinary view of the interpretation of pre-Raphaelite art and literature. The current intensifying interest in the relationship between the visual arts and narrative and their critical interpretation justifies a look at the earliest use of such orientation in the works of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and its followers. Particularly in the work of Rossetti, Hunt, Millais, and Burne-Jones one can see at work the pre-Raphaelist invention of a personal symbolic language. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Function of the Grotesque in | 8 |
The Medieval Spirit of PreRaphaelitism | 15 |
Typology History and Persona | 29 |
The PreRaphaelite Brotherhood as Knights of the Round Table | 53 |
Sir Gawain Sir Lancelot the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood | 75 |
The Influence of Christine de Pisan | 93 |
SelfReflection and Desire | 109 |
Locks Tresses and Manes in PreRaphaelite Paintings | 159 |
The Influence of the Courtly Love | 193 |
BurneJones Swinburne and Laus Veneris | 209 |
William Morris and the Ideal Book | 262 |
Susan Ashbrook | 281 |
Selected Bibliography | 307 |
Common terms and phrases
Alicia Faxon angel Angelico Annunciation Art Gallery Arthurian subject artist ballads Barbara Miliaras beauty Bercilak British Museum Chaucer Christine de Pisan City Museum collection courtly love courtly love tradition Dante Gabriel Rossetti Delaware Art Museum depiction drawing Ecce Ancilla Domini Edward Burne-Jones Elizabeth Siddal English fallen woman feminine figures Fra Angelico garden Gawain Girolami Cheney goddess Grail grotesque Guinevere hair Holy Hunt and Rossetti Hunt's iconography ideal Idylls illuminated manuscripts illustration inspiration James Collinson Kelmscott Lady of Shalott Lancelot Laus Veneris Liana De Girolami literary literature London lover masculine Medieval Middle Ages Millais moral Morgan Library Museum and Art nineteenth century Oxford painters passion Pelleas poem poet Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood published quest Raphaelite Brotherhood religious Renaissance Round Table Ruskin seen sexual spiritual Swinburne symbol Tate Gallery Tennyson theme University Press Vasari Venus Victorian Virgin Vivien William Holman Hunt William Morris Wiseman women York