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List of illustrations

  • Autumn Leaves
  • The Blue Closet
  • Four Musical Angels, fragment
  • The Awakening Conscience
  • Bocca Baciata (Lips That Have Been Kissed)
  • The Source
  • Study (Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea)
  • The Wife of Pygmalion
  • Azaleas
  • Medea
  • The White Symphony: Three Girls
  • Variations in Blue and Green
  • Symphony in White and Red
  • Lady Lilith
  • Sibylla Palmifera
  • Amoris Sacramentum
  • A Prelude by Bach
  • A Saint of the Eastern Church (formerly called A Greek Acolyte)
  • Heliogabalus, High Priest of the Sun, 118–122 AD
  • The Mystery of Faith
  • Love in Autumn
  • Carrying the Scrolls of the Law
  • Golden Hours
  • Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene
  • The Bride, Bridegroom and Sad Love
  • The Bride, Bridegroom and the Friend of the Bridegroom
  • Dawn
  • Bacchus
  • Bacchus
  • Testa di giobanotto coronato d'alloro
  • Saint Jean Baptiste
  • Saint Jean Baptiste
  • Antinous relief
  • Bacchus
  • The Winged and Poppied Sleep
  • Dreamers
  • Yellow Marguerites
  • Nude Figure Study for Birds of the Air
  • Elijah's Sacrifice
  • The Shulamite
  • Apricots
  • Pomegranates
  • A Musician
  • Spanish Dancing Girl: Cadiz in the Old Times
  • Symphony in White, No. III
  • Study for Helios and Rhodos
  • Study for A Venus
  • Crouching Figure. Study for The White Symphony: Three Girls
  • Venus
  • Symphony in Blue and Pink
  • Seagulls
  • Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Sea
  • A Venus
  • A Quartet; A Painter's Tribute to the Arts of Music, A.D. 1868
  • Reading Aloud
  • Venus de Milo
  • Study for Mr. Frederic Leighton, A.R.A.
  • The Triumph of Music
  • Lieder Ohne Worte
  • A Girl with a Basket of Fruit
  • Venus Disrobing for the Bath
  • Jonathan's Token to David
  • St. Jerome
  • Elijah in the Wilderness
  • Helen of Troy
  • The Bath of Psyche
  • Summer Moon
  • Danaë
  • Flaming June
  • Psamanthe
  • Daedalus and Icarus
  • The Daphnephoria
  • Clytie
  • Clytie
  • Helios and Rhodos
  • Thomas
  • Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl
  • The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables
  • Pierrot
  • The Little White Girl (No. 2)
  • Variations in Flesh Colour and Green - The Balcony
  • Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea
  • Variations in Violet and Green
  • Eternity
  • Nocturne in Blue and Silver
  • Nocturne in Blue and Silver
  • Nocturne: The River at Battersea
  • Nocturne in Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights
  • Nocturne
  • Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water
  • Nocturne in Blue and Silver: The Lagoon, Venice
  • The Little White Girl (No. 2)
  • Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Old Battersea Bridge
  • Nocturne in Grey and Gold: Chelsea Snow
  • Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother
  • The Blessed Damozel
  • The Blessed Damozel
  • La Damoiselle élue
  • The Salutation of Beatrice
  • The Blue Bower
  • Olympia
  • The Beloved (The Bride)
  • Woman at her Toilet
  • Aurelia (Fazio’s Mistress)
  • Astarte Syriaca
  • Silence
  • Proserpine
  • Ideal Head of a Woman
  • Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli
  • La Donna della Finestra
  • The Artist Attempting to Join the World of Art with Disastrous Results
  • The Artist Attempting to Join the World of Art with Disastrous Results
  • The Artist Attempting to Join the World of Art with Disastrous Results
  • The Artist Attempting to Join the World of Art with Disastrous Results
  • The Artist Attempting to Join the World of Art with Disastrous Results
  • Phyllis and Demophoon
  • The Beguiling of Merlin
  • The Days of Creation, in its original frame
  • The Fifth Day
  • Saint George
  • The Mill: Girls Dancing to Music by a River
  • The Wheel of Fortune
  • Pygmalion and the Image: The Hand Refrains
  • The Wedding of Psyche
  • The Golden Stairs
  • King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
  • Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket
  • Venus' Mirror
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This book has been in progress for more than a decade – so long that I cannot hope to record all of its debts; I thank the innumerable friends and colleagues who have influenced my thinking over many years. In its earliest stages the research benefited from the encouragement and advice of John House, from the support of Nicholas Prettejohn, and from numerous...
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Many attempts have been made to identify an artistic movement that would...
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In 1876 Walter Pater made one of his exceedingly rare references to a work of contemporary art when he alluded briefly, in an essay on the myth of Dionysus, to ‘a Bacchus by a young Hebrew painter’ (fig. 33 or 34).Walter H. Pater, ‘A Study of Dionysus’, Fortnightly Review n.s. 20...
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In a hasty glance, we might glimpse four figures rhythmically arrayed across the surface of Albert Moore’s Dreamers of 1882 (fig. 42). Closer inspection reveals that the area of brown pigment on the right, curved...
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For his contemporaries as for recent scholars, the primary fact about Whistler is his singularity. It may be said that he and his critics, in a strange collusion born of antipathy and adulation in equal measure, have made of Whistler himself an object of aesthetic judgement...
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Rossetti’s most obvious distinction – that he was both a painter and a poet – also proves to be the most persistent critical problem in discussion of his work in either medium. At an extreme it becomes a gauge of his failure in both: he is too ‘literary’ a painter, or too ‘pictorial’ a poet; or his attempt to unite the two arts only hastens their division in...
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Since the 1960s, we have tended to see Burne-Jones’s paintings as if they were illustrations to J. R. R. Tolkien: nostalgic evocations of a Middle Earth that never was, a ‘dreamworld’ or...
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