The Pre-Raphaelites and Science
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This revelatory book traces how the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their close associates put scientific principles into practice across their painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture. In their manifesto, The Germ, the Pre-Raphaelites committed themselves to creating a new kind of art modeled on science, in which precise observation could lead to discoveries about nature and humanity. In Oxford and London, Victorian scientists and Pre-Raphaelite artists worked together to design and decorate natural history museums as temples to God’s creation. At the same time, journals like Nature and the Fortnightly Review combined natural science with Pre-Raphaelite art theory and poetry to find meaning and coherence within a worldview turned upside down by Darwin’s theory of evolution. Offering reinterpretations of well-known works by John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, and William Morris, this major revaluation of the popular Victorian movement also considers less-familiar artists who were no less central to the Pre-Raphaelite project. These include William Michael Rossetti, Walter Deverell, James Collinson, John and Rosa Brett, John Lucas Tupper, and the O’Shea brothers, along with the architects Benjamin Woodward and Alfred Waterhouse.
Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
John Holmes is professor of Victorian literature and culture, University of Birmingham.
Winner of The British Society for Literature and Science Prize
“With 150 gorgeous illustrations, Holmes explores how the Brotherhood took up scientific ideas, starting with natural theology and then the changes following the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. . . . This is a beautiful, important book.”—Pamela K. Gilbert, Studies in English Literature
“A welcome addition to the expanding field of scholarly tomes on the Pre-Raphaelites, John Holmes’s polished, handsomely designed and illustrated The Pre-Raphaelites and Science effectively locates the famous group of provocative nineteenth-century artistic and literary innovators in a new framework. . . . . Refreshing and substantial contributions [are] made by Holmes’s enjoyable and original volume.”— Nancy Rose Marshall, Victorian Studies
Long listed for the Historians of British Art Book Prize
ISBN: 9780300232066
Publication Date: July 17, 2018
Publishing Partner: Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Publication Date: July 17, 2018
Publishing Partner: Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
308 pages, 9 x 11
150 color + b/w illus.
150 color + b/w illus.
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