The cult of beauty : the aesthetic movement, 1860-1900 / edited by Stephen Calloway and Lynn Federle Orr ; assisted by Esmé Whittaker.

Summary: This book focuses on a period at the end of the nineteenth century when a group of artists, architects and designers found themselves linked by the search for a new Beauty. "The Aesthetic movement", as it came to be known, united romantic bohemians such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti,...

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Corporate Authors: Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée d'Orsay, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
Other Authors: Calloway, Stephen, Orr, Lynn Federle, 1947-, Whittaker, Esmé
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : V&A Publishing, 2011.
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Holy Cross Note:Contains a reproduction of: Sketch for Rose and Silver: La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine, 1863-1864, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (p. 113). Art original: oil on hardboard; 61.3 x 33.5 cm in Worcester Art Museum (accession number: 1940.56).

Worcester Art Museum Library - Reading Room Quarto

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Call Number: N6767.5.A3 C85 2011
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