Colour Library The Preraphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelites was a group of painters, poets and critics founded in 1848. Their early doctrines were to have genuine ideas to express, study nature attentively, sympathise with direct, serious and heartfelt previous art and most indispensable of all to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues. These principles are deliberately non-dogmatic, since the Brotherhood wished to emphasis the personal responsibility of individual artists to determine their own ideas and methods of depiction. This is part of a series which acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology. Written by Andrea Rose. 128 pages. 300 x 222mm.

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