Week of 4 October: John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Millais's Late Career -- Portraits, Subject Pictures, and Landscapes

• A Transitional Work: A Dream of the Past -- Sir Isumbras at the Ford
• The Later Years of John Everett Millais' Portraits: Impressionistic Genius or Lazy self-indulgence?
• John Ruskin, 1853-54
• Portrait of a Girl (Sophie Gray), 1856
• The Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone, 1879
• Cardinal Newman, 1881
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1881
• The Right Honourable John Bright, 1880
• The Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone, 1885
• An Dream of the Past, 1857
• The North-West Passage, 1874

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Early Works (and Later Typological Ones)

• Drastic Innovations on a Traditional Theme: Rossetti's Ecce Ancilla Domini
• The Girlhood of Mary Virgin
• Found
• The Seed of David
• The Passover in the Holy Family: Gathering Bitter Herbs
• Textualization and Typology in The Passover in the Holy Family
• Rossetti's Interpretations: The Illustrations for Tennyson's "The Palace of Art"
• Four illustrations for the Moxon Tennyson

Rossetti and the Fair Lady

• Rossetti's Found: Unfamiliar Territory
• Lady Lilith
• Tragic Love in Rossetti's Beatrice, (A Portrait of Jane Morris)
• Longing and Connection in D.G. Rossetti's Prosperpine
• Proserpine and Jane Morris: Women Trapped in Unhappy Relationships
• The Beauty as Power in Rossetti's Lady Lilith
• A Dialectic of Beauty in Rossetti's Lady Lilith
• Beatrice, a Portrait of Jane Morris
• Sensuality and Tragedy in Regina Cordium or The Queen of Hearts
• Supernatural Reality in Beata Beatrix
• Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice
• Aspecta Medusa
• Proserpine
• Regina Cordium or The Queen of Hearts

Last modified 3 October 2004