The Pre-Raphaelites – Visionary Vanity of Half a Dozen Boys
In style and technique the Pre-Raphaelites marked a return to the early Italian Renaissance but by contrast their subject matter was both radical and innovative
Ivanhoe
‘The Angel in the House’ – A Snug Victorian Family Life
Coventry Patmore wrote a poem about his wife Emily after she died describing her many virtues and from then on all Victorian men wanted an ‘Angel in the House’
The Romantic View
It is hard to judge the impact of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley novels published over an eighteen-year period from 1814, except to say it was more than considerable. Rousing tales such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Quentin Durwood fuelled a Gothic Medieval architectural revival elevating the romantic view. By way…