Aestheticism in Victorian Painting and the Other Arts

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General Points of Departure The Early Aesthetic Movement in England Aesthetes, Decadents, and the Idea of Art for Art's Sake The Grosvenor Gallery and the Aesthetic Movement Origins of the Terms Charles Baudelaire and British Decadents The Late Pre-Raphaelites Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-1896 Walter Crane, 1845-1915 Edward Robert Hughes, 1851-1914 Sidney Harold Meteyard Charles de Sousy Ricketts, 1866-1931 John Liston Byam Shaw, 1872-1919 Simeon Solomon, 1840-1905 John Rodham Spencer Stanhope, 1829-1908 John Melhuish Strudwick, 1849-1937 John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917

The Acaemic or Classical School Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836-1912 John William Godward, 1861-1922 Frederick Lord Leighton, 1830-1896 Albert Joseph Moore, 1841-1893 Edward J. Poynter, 1821-1902 George Frederick Watts, 1817-1904 The Nympholeptos or the Second St. John's Wood Clique Introduction to the late Aesthetetic School in British Painting Herbert James Draper, 1864-1920 Frank Dicksee Arthur Hacker George Spencer Watson

Theme and Subject

• "A Sado-masochistic preoccupation with the saline vampires" — Simon Toll on Sirens in Late Victorian Painting
• The Devouring Woman and Her Serpentine Hair in Late-Pre-Raphaelitism
• Death and the Afterlife in Pre-Raphaelite Art
• Pre-Raphaelite Fairy Painting
• The Pre-Raphaelite Women destroyed by Love in all its Forms and Fates
• Frozen Moments in Time: Seriation in Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Poetry

Related Material

• Aesthetes and Decadents: Authors
• Some European descendants of Pre-Raphaelitism: Khnopff, Klimt, Klinger, and Others
• European Aesthetes, Decadents, and Symbolists

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