Feminine Beauty and Pre-Raphaelite Art

John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-1852, Oil on Canvas, Tate Britain, London Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith, 1866-68/1872-73, Oil on Canvas, Delaware Art Museum Frank Cadogan Cowper, Elizabeth, Daughter of Major General F. V. B. Willis, 1955, Oil on Canvas, Privately Owned Arthur Hughes, In the Grass, 1865, Oil on Cardboard, Museums Sheffield John Everett Millais,…

Materiality Analysis

The medieval manuscript Romance of the Rose contains the most popular romance poem of the fourteenth century. It was originally written by Guillaume de Lorris, who died before its completion, and the manuscript was later finished by Jean de Meun around the year 1280 (Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, NLW MS 5016D). In addition to…