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The Influence of Pre-Raphaelitism on Fin-de-Siècle Italy: Art, Beauty, and Culture

The Influence of Pre-Raphaelitism on Fin-de-Siècle Italy: Art, Beauty, and Culture

Pieri, Giuliana

Hardcover

Series: MHRA Texts and Dissertations, Book 65

Art HistoryGeneral World HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 1781881812
ISBN13: 9781781881811
Publisher: Texts and Translations
Published: Jul 21 2014
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

This volume is the first comprehensive study of the influence of English Pre-Raphaelitism on Italian art and culture in the late nineteenth century. Analysis of the cultural relations between Italy and Britain has focused traditionally on the special place that Italy had in the British imagination, but the cultural and artistic exchanges between the two countries have been much misunderstood. This book aims to correct this imbalance by placing Pre-Raphaelitism in its European context. It explores the nature of its influence on Italy, how it was transmitted, and how it was manifested, by focusing on the role of Italian Anglophiles, the English communities in Florence and Rome, the writings of Gabriele D'Annunzio, and a number of Italian artists active in Tuscany and Rome. The works of Cellini, Ricci, Gioja, De Carolis, and Sartorio in particular fully demonstrate the impact of Pre-Raphaelitism on the young Italian school of painting which found in the English movement an ideal link with its glorious past on which it could build a new artistic identity. These artists show that English Pre-Raphaelitism was one of the most powerful single influences on fin-de-siècle Italian culture.

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