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Legare Street Press Masterpieces of D. G. Rossetti 18281882
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The
Book SynopsisMajor edition revealing key ideas and events in the lives and work of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and Victorian literary circles: 5,800 letters (including 2,000 previously unpublished letters) to 330 recipients.The best of these letters, flowing rapidly from his pen, radiate charisma and enthusiasm, warmth and care for his friends, and a total engagement with art and literature. BURLINGTON MAGAZINE [Julian Treuherz] 1835-1854: This nine-volume edition will represent the definitive collection of extant Rossetti correspondence, an outstanding primary witness to the range of ideas and opinions that shaped Rossetti's art and poetry. The largest collection ofRossetti's letters ever to be published, it features all known surviving letters, a total of almost 5,800 to over 330 recipients, and includes 2,000 previously unpublished letters by Rossetti and selected letters to him. In addition to this, about 100 drawings taken from within letter texts are also reproduced. In its entirety the collection will give an invaluable and unparalleled insight into Rossetti's character and art, and will form a rich resource for students and scholars studying all aspects of his life and work. The correspondence has been transcribed from collections in sixty-four manuscript repositories, containing Rossetti's letters to his companions in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt and Stephens; friends such as Boyce and Bell Scott; his early patrons, Ellen Heaton and James Leathart; and his publisher friend, Alexander Macmillan. An additional twenty-two printed sources have also been accessed. Index; extensive annotations.WILLIAM E. FREDEMAN (1928-1999) was professor of English at the University of British Columbia from 1956-1991. His many books, articles and reviews on the Pre-Raphaelites and their followersinclude his important Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study. He died in 1999 with this edition almost completed. An editorial committee chaired by Betty Fredeman has been formed to see it through the press.Trade ReviewThe best of these letters, flowing rapidly from his pen, radiate charisma and enthusiasm, warmth and care for his friends, and a total engagement with art and literature. -- Julian Treuherz * BURLINGTON MAGAZINE *The young Rossetti emerges as a distinctly more rubust and unpredictable figure than fans of the later Rossetti might expect... Rossetti is by turns earnest, skittish, stiffly formal and exuberantly scatalogical. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Impressive volumes...edited with excellent attention to detail... Invaluable and fascinating reading. * REVIEW OF THE PRS *An exemplary model of scholarship.... Brings us closer to the Pre-Raphaelites than anyone in the twenty-first century could otherwise ever imagine.... May stand as [an] exemplary monument of modern editorial scholarship. * JOURNAL OF PRE-RAPHAELITE STUDIES *These handsome volumes are to be warmly welcomed by all of us interested in the Pre-Raphaelites and the Morris circle. * WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY JOURNAL *Fredeman's knowledge of the period and careful editing separates Rossetti from what he calls the `bleak, reclusive, somnolent stereotype' portrayed by many of his biographers. * ANITIQUARIES JOURNAL *
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portraits of Women
Book SynopsisDante Gabriel Rossetti (1828?1882), best known and admired for his striking and seductive portraits of women, was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists whose work is inspired by the art of the early Italian Renaissance. Rossetti?s powerful and unconventional portraits, with their sumptuous, jewel-like colors, are explored in this beautiful gift book.Rossetti defined his experiences through his passion for his subjects, and this book traces his deliberate intertwining of art and life. His models such as Jane Morris, Elizabeth Siddal and his sister Christina, were his inspiration, and in his rejection of conventional beauty, he redefined difference as desirable. Through his view of women, Rossetti confronted the staid nineteenth-century public with a new and powerful image of women, and the allure of that power is still felt today.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 10:
Book SynopsisMore than an index to the nine volumes of letters, this volume is a concise guide to an entire cultural era seen through the lens of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Volume 10 of The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is the first ever analytical and biographical index to all Rossetti's letters from 1835-82. It gives readers the widest possible contextual access to all names of persons, places, works of art, writings, movements, organizations and activities, both physical and intellectual, mentioned in these letters with their annotations and appendices. But this index, augmenting the partial ones in Vols2 and 5, is far more than a simple listing of names: it also serves as a subject index, providing mini-précis descriptions of the information detailed in the annotated letter texts. Subheadings within entries depend on the complexity of the subject and may include letters to/from (for recipients) and lists of artistic and literary works by Rossetti's correspondents, or predecessors such as Blake, Keats and Coleridge. It is a concise guide to an entire cultural era. Since Rossetti is the lens through which all other entries are filtered, his own entry is divided into multiple subheadings to facilitate easy access. The researcher can quickly locate all references to the sonnet sequence The House of Life, the various versions of the Proserpine picture or the complex relationship of his drug use to Rossetti's life and work.Trade ReviewIt contains an encyclopaedic index covering many thousands of headings.... Practically everything one might want to know about Rossetti is covered in microscopic detail....Taken as a whole [the set provides] an invaluable tool and will be used by all future researchers seeking to understand the imitable Rossetti, his art, his family, his circle of friends, his enemies and his loved ones. * PRS REVIEW *Table of ContentsBiographical and Analytical Index Undated, unpublished letters Bibliography
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LEGARE STREET PR Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham 18541870
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Cambridge University Press Dante Gabriel Rossetti An Anthology
Book SynopsisFrank Laurence Lucas (1894â1967) was a renowned English author, poet and classicist, often remembered for his polemical attacks on key modernist figures such as T. S. Eliot, as well as his meticulous scholarship in the production of texts such as the four-volume Complete Works of John Webster. First published in 1933, this book presents an accessible selection of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetry edited by Lucas. The text is divided into two parts, with the first part containing translated works by other poets and the second original works by Rossetti. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Rossetti's poetry and the writings of Lucas.Table of ContentsNote; Introduction; Part I. Poets of Dante's Circle: Dante Alighieri; Guido Cavalcanti; Cino da Pistoia; Cecco Angliolieri, da Siena; Giovanni Boccacio; Part II. Poets Chiefly before Dante: Frederick II. Emperor; Guerzo di Montecanti; Inghilfredi, Siciliano; Jacopo da Lentino; Giacomino Pugliesi; Bartolomeo di Sant'Angelo; Bonaggiunta Urbiciani, da Lucca; Meo Abbracciavacca, da Pistoia; Ubaldo di Marco; Folgore da San Geminiano; Pier Moronelli, di Fiorenza; Niccolò degli Albizzi; Francesco da Barberino; Fazio degli Uberti; Anonymous poems; Part III. Original Poems.
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Hardpress Publishing Fine Art Chiefly Contemporary Notices Reprinted With Revision 1
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Gabriele Rossetti
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Legare Street Press Praeraphaelite Diaries and Letters 1
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Dante Rossetti and the PreRaphaelite Movement
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Letters of Christina Rossetti v. 4 18871894
Book SynopsisChristina Rossetti has come to be considered one of the major poets. ""The Letters of Christina Rossetti"" makes available all of her extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never before been published. These letters come from over 100 private and institutional collections. The fourth and final volume covers the last eight years of her life.
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LEGARE STREET PR The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
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LEGARE STREET PR Ruskin Rossetti Preraphaelitism Papers 1854 to 1862
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LEGARE STREET PR The Poetical Works of Christine Georgina Rossetti
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Museum of Fine Arts,Boston Masterpieces Great Paintings of the World in the
Book SynopsisMixed from egg whites and vegetable tints, water and soot, oils and rare minerals and applied to bone, wood, metal and canvas, the plastic and expressive properties of paint have stirred artists and their admirers throughout history. The holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have grown into a formidable appraisal of one of humankind''s oldest and most diverse forms of artistic expression--from its first acquisition, Washington Allston''s Elijah in the Desert (1818), to recently acquired works by Edgar Degas, Georgia O''Keeffe and Takashi Murakami--and now constitutes one of America''s largest permanent collections. The first version of Masterpieces has long been a favorite among museum-goers and art lovers. This new edition expands on the scope of the old, adding new acquisitions and featuring 150 master works by artists from Asia, Europe and the Americas--from delicate Song-dynasty handscrolls to jewel-like images of medieval piety, scenes of mythic drama, austere still l
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Penguin Books Ltd Selected Poems Rossetti
Book SynopsisA captivating selection of enduring verse by one of the Victorian era's most beloved poetsChristina Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse forms. Weaving connections between love and death, triumph and loss, heavenly joys and earthly pleasures, Rossetti's poems startle the imagination with their extraordinary truth, beauty, and intensity. This first fully annotated collection, based on the definitive texts, brings together love lyrics, sonnets, hymns, ballads, the vast body of her devotional poetry, and fantasy poems like Goblin Market, Rossetti's terrifyingly vivid verses for children.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Masterpieces of Hogarth 16971764
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Legare Street Press The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Rizzoli International Publications The Hermitage 250 Masterpieces
Book SynopsisHighlights from the palatial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, are beautifully reproduced in an accessible volume celebrating the museum's 250th anniversary. For 250 years, the State Hermitage Museum has been one of the world's most palatial and significant museums. The Hermitage collections were developed beginning in 1764 by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, and now encompass more than 3 million works of art and artifacts displayed within a spectacular architectural ensemble, the heart of which is the famed Winter Palace. Now, on this important anniversary, this stunning volume captures the masterpieces that make this world-famous institution a cultural destination and a global treasure.The Hermitage: 250 Masterworks explores this sumptuous collection in the manner of a private tour, showcasing the museum's extraordinary and uniquely underpublished treasures: no other institution has thirty-six Rembrandts; works by Italian Renaissance artists incluTrade Review"Highlights from the palatial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, are beautifully reproduced in an accessible volume celebrating the museum's 250th anniversary." -Publishers Weekly
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Legare Street Press The Poetical Works of Christine Georgina Rossetti
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Everyman Rossetti Poems
Book SynopsisAn exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics' 128pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The binding, paper and production will be visibly superior in every way to that of Bloomsbury
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National Gallery Company Ltd The National Gallery: Masterpieces of Painting
Book SynopsisAn exceptional introduction to European paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century through one of the greatest collections in the world. This richly illustrated and beautifully designed book offers an ideal introduction to European painting from the 13th to the early 20th century. The National Gallery, London, houses one of the finest collections of Western European art in the world. Its extraordinary range includes exceptional paintings from medieval Europe through the early Renaissance and on to Post-Impressionism, including masterpieces by Leonardo, Hans Holbein, Titian, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Turner, Monet, and Van Gogh. This volume showcases more than 250 of the Gallery’s most treasured pictures, providing an opportunity to make connections across this uniquely representative collection. Paintings are accompanied by numerous details, as well as brief and illuminating texts, providing an informative and visually rich survey of hundreds of years of European painting.Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
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Oxford University Press Poems and Prose
Book Synopsis''The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...''Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world''s beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even deadly. She is a religious poet, but much of her work is driven by uncertainty. Her poems are restrained, even secretive, but they seek nothing less than the mystery of Life and Death.This edition contains Rossetti''s strongest and most distinctive work: poetry (including ''Goblin Market'', ''The Prince''s Progress'', and the sonnet sequence ''Monna Innominata''), stories (including the complete text of Maude), devotional prose (with nearly fifty entries from the ''reading diary'' Times Flies), and personal letters. Those poems which Rossetti published, and those which she withheld from publication, are here brought together in chronological order, allowing the reader to observe her poetic trajectory. This edition also records the major revision
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HardPress Publishing Il Mistero Dellamor Platonico Del Medio Evo Derivato Da Misteri Antichi
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Getty Trust Publications Masterpieces of Painting - J. Paul Getty Museum
Book Synopsis"I am convinced that the true collector does not acquire objects of art for himself alone. His is no selfish drive or desire to have and hold a painting, a sculpture, or a fine example of antique furniture so that only he may see and enjoy it. Appreciating the beauty of the object, he is willing and even eager to have others share his pleasure." -J. Paul Getty, The Joys of Collecting, 1965 Rooted in a passion for the Italian Renaissance as well as Dutch and Flemish Baroque works, the original collection of J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) has been transformed over four decades to include seminal pieces by celebrated masters such as Masaccio, Titian, Parmigianino, Cranach, El Greco, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Poussin, Canaletto, Fragonard, Turner, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, van Gogh, Cezanne, and Ensor. Masterpiece Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum surveys more than one hundred of the most exquisite and significant paintings displayed in the museum's famed, daylight-suffused galleries. Vibrant full-colour illustrations and engaging descriptions of these masterworks reveal their fascinating histories and cultural, social, and religious meanings. Sure to enchant and edify all art lovers, this book is a spellbinding tour through the history of Western painting.
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Rizzoli International Publications The Metropolitan Museum of Art Masterpiece
Book SynopsisIn line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings, and Rizzoli's successful The Hermitage Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, this title offers an exquisite tour, unique in its lavish illustration, scholarship, extent, and graceful packaging. As the first large survey published in 30 years, and the first large general survey of the Met's paintings collection it is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings of one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive book’s broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. Lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpieces, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of paiTrade Review"Succeeds magnificently in evoking a global art history…presented in a way that only a physical book could accommodate: eye-filling reproductions in a stylish package of more than five hundred pages, nicely bound…will delight the casual page flipper but it will also entrance art-book aficionados…consistently evokes illuminating connections and gives readers room to discover them" —Bookforum"Noting that the Met is known for its very scholarly works and exhibition and collection catalogues, Campbell said that this 'exquisite book' ought to appeal to 'a broad audience.'" —Shelf-awareness.com"It is an essential volume for those wishing to experience The Met’s extraordinary collection or to study masterpieces of painting from throughout history and is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world." —ArtDaily.org"In The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings from Skira Rizzoli, thumb your way through the galleries of New York's famed museum. This coming-soon volume displays 500 masterworks from the dawn of civilization to modern times." —Private Clubs Magazine"This volume’s broad sweep of material, all from a The Metropolitan Museum of Art, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. Color illustrations and details of 500 masterpieces, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present." —Hamptons Art Hub"Head exploding: With 544 pages and 1100 color images of the Met’s art and sculpture collection, this book is intense. Masterpieces, indeed."—TheStyleSalononiste.com"The hardcover book is said to be the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings in the museum"—Art & Antiques"Galitz's text succeed in balancing sound, up-to-date scholarship with an accessible tone that anyone can appreciate... Publicatoins and online series like these are exactly what the Met is ideally suited to create, and we look forward to seeing still more in the years ahead."—Fine Art Connoisseur "The perfect gift for any lover of art."—Art Of The Times
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Christina Rossetti Selected Poems Revision Guide
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Legare Street Press Poems Of Christina Rossetti
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Taschen GmbH Leonardo. The Complete Paintings. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisOne of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this book is a compact catalogue raisonné of all of the artist's masterful paintings. Drawn from our best-selling XXL edition, the book traces the artist's life and work across 10 chapters, presenting all known paintings and drawing on his letters, contracts, diary entries, and writings to explore the man behind such groundbreaking artworks. From Virgin of the Rocks to Virgin and Child with St. Anne to the ever-beguiling Mona Lisa, you'll find some of the finest treasures of the Louvre, Prado, and National Gallery, London here, as well as Leonardo works lost to time, but no less startling in their precision and poise.
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Legare Street Press Gabriele Rossetti
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Taschen GmbH Caravaggio. The Complete Works. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisCaravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Today, he is considered one of the greatest influences in all art history. This edition offers a neat and comprehensive Caravaggio catalogue raisonné. Each of his paintings is reproduced from recent top-quality photography, allowing for a vivid encounter with the artist’s ingenious repertoire of looks and gestures, as well as numerous detail shots of his boundary-breaking naturalism. Five accompanying chapters trace the complete arc of Caravaggio’s career from his first public commissions in Rome through to his growing celebrity status and trace his tempestuous personal life, in which drama loomed as prominently as in his canvases.Trade Review“The pictures come across as so real that leafing through this book, the reader almost smells the oil paint. Every page is a pleasure for the senses.” * NDR Kultur *“This book is an artwork unto itself—perfect for Italian Renaissance aficionados.” * Die Welt *“The reproductions are excellent, the details often breathtakingly vivid..." * The Royal Academy Magazine *
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National Gallery of Art,Washington American Paintings of the 19th Century Part II
Book SynopsisCatalogues more than one hundred works that are devoted to the National Gallery of Art's holdings of 19th-century American paintings. Featuring works of Thomas Sully, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler, this collection also includes John Quidor's "The Return of Rip van Winkle" and Albert Pinkham Ryder's "Siegfried".
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Forgotten Books The Face of the Deep
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti
Book SynopsisWith an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran.Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rosetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable hope. Her divine poems have a freshness and toughness of thought, while many of her love poems are erotic, and as often express love for women as for men. The varied threads of Rossetti's concerns are drawn together in what is perhaps her greatest poem, the strange and ambiguous 'Goblin Market'.
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