Wood, Esther; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel [Ill.]: Dante Rossetti and the pre-Raphaelite movement (London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1894)

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
The Preparation for Reform in Art.
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Constable prophecies the Decay of English Art—The
New Impulse from Italy—The English Renaissance of
1850—Rossetti and the Specialistic Temperament-
Classicism of the Eighteenth Century—Influence of the
French Revolution—Revival of Romance—Contrast
between Mediaeval and Modern Romance—Pessimism
in Pre-Raphaelite Painting—Nature as a Background-
Moral Significance of the Change. 1
CHAPTER II.
The Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century.
Childhood of Rossetti—Religious and Literary In-
fluences—Art Training—Conflict between Imagination
and Technique—Friendship with Millais and Holman
Hunt—The Westminster Hall Competitions—Ford
Madox Brown — Influence of Ruskin’s “Modern
Painters”—The Early Italian Masters—The Renais-
sance in Mediaeval Europe—Relation of Paganism to
Christianity—Revival of Hellenism, and blending of
Classic with Romantic Art—Growth of Technique and
Return to Convention—The Rule of the Raphaelesque 18