**本同时探讨罗塞蒂艺术和诗歌的艺术书，包括她自己的艺术作品，为文章创作的插图和她受她启发而创作的艺术作品。

克里斯蒂娜•罗塞蒂（Christina Rossetti，1830-1894年）是英国维多利亚时代最伟大的诗人之一。如今，她的视觉强度，口语风格和诗词的抒情本质仍然有力地告诫着我们，而她惊人的意象始终激发着艺术家们的灵感。罗塞蒂生活在异常视觉环境中：她的兄弟但丁•加布里埃尔•罗塞蒂（Dante Gabriel Rossetti）是前拉斐尔前派兄弟会的主要成员，她成为了该团体最喜欢的模特。在威廉•霍尔曼•亨特（William Holman Hunt）的《世界之光》中，她坐在基督的面前，约翰•埃弗里特•米莱斯（John Everett Millais）和弗雷德里克•桑迪斯（Frederick Sandys）都在阐释她的诗歌。后来，开创性摄影师茱莉亚•玛格丽特•卡梅伦和伟大的比利时象征主义者费尔南德•科诺普夫受到罗塞蒂神秘诗句的启发。这本引人入胜的书探讨了罗塞蒂的生活和诗歌的完整艺术背景：她对图片的复杂态度；艺术家创作的许多幅她的肖像画，包括她的兄弟约翰•布雷特和刘易斯•卡罗尔；她自己的有趣且不为人知的素描作品；以及受她的文字启发的大量视觉图像。

A brand new look at the extremely beautiful, if underappreciated, later works of one of the most inventive artists of the 20th century

Between 1935 and his death at midcentury, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) undertook many decorative projects and commissions. These include mural paintings, stained glass, ceramic tiles, lead crystal pieces, carpets, tapestries, fashion fabrics, and accessories—work that has received no significant treatment until now. By presenting a wealth of new insights and unpublished material, including from the artist’s own correspondence, John Klein, an internationally acclaimed specialist in the art of Matisse, offers a richer and more balanced view of Matisse’s ambitions and achievements in the often-neglected later phases of his career.

Matisse designed many of these decorations in the innovative—and widely admired—medium of the paper cut-out, whose function and significance Klein reevaluates. Matisse and Decoration also opens a window onto the revival and promotion, following World War II, of traditional French decorative arts as part of France’s renewed sense of cultural preeminence. For the first time, the idea of the decorative in Matisse’s work and the actual decorations he designed for specific settings are integrated in one account, amounting to an understanding of this modern master’s work that is simultaneously more nuanced and more comprehensive.