对英国艺术最早的一场现代运动——前拉斐尔派——的生活、爱情和作品的引人入胜的探讨。

前拉斐尔派画家是真正前卫、**才华、超前的画家。这本美观、带有插图的历史书用他们自己的信件、日记、诗歌和绘画表现了他们在英国维多利亚时代晚期互相联系的生活与爱情。它包含了当时***的画家、作家、评论家和设计师，包括Ford Madox Brown; Edward Burne-Jones; Fanny Comforth; John Everett Millais; William and Janey Morris; Christina, Dante Gabriel, and William Rossetti; John Ruskin; William Bell Scott; and Lizzie Siddal.

The story of how a group of precocious young artists shook up the British art establishment, told through their works, letters and diaries. A very handsome illustrated history of the linked lives and loves of a group of supremely talented artists of late Victorian Britain through their passionate writings. It features the painters, poets, critics and designers: Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Fanny Cornforth, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, William and Janey Morris, Chrstina, Dante Gabriel, and William Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Bell Scott and Lizzie Siddal. The artistic aspirations and achievements of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as revealed alongside the interwoven dramas of their personal lives, in letters, diaries and reminiscences, while their genius is displayed in vivid paintings, drawings, designs and poems. The Pre-Raphaelites was a charmed circles of love, friendship and art. Within an ever-changing flow of affections, and intimacies as richly patterned as a tapestry, they worked together as companions, lovers and partners. They shared tragedy as well as happiness, critical hostility as well as success, even the griefs of infidelity and discord. These creative partnerships, which also created the firm William Morris and Co, revitalised Victorian art and design. The new edition publishes in time for the start of the Burne Jones Exhibition at Tate Britain, starting in October 18. It is a vital book in understanding the Pre-Raphaelite art, which remains as popular and moving as ever.