The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Thinking Historically About Artistic Movements

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Recommended & Further Reading

Anderson, Anne. Beyond the Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy. Sanson & Co., 2019.   
Bennet, Mary. Artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Circle: The First Generation. Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, 1988. 

Benson, Laurie. Medieval Moderns: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. NGV, 2015. 

Casteras, Susan P. and Alicia Craig Faxon. Pre-Raphaelite Art in Its European Context. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995. 

“Chapter 2: Standards in Historical Thinking.” The History Teacher 28, no. 3 (1995): 315–34. https://doi.org/10.2307/494680.   

Edward L. Ayers, "Everyone Their Own Historian." Journal of American History Volume 105, Issue 3, December 2018, Pages 505–513  

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Lévesque, Stéphane. “The Nature of History and Historical Thinking.” Chapter 2 in Thinking Historically: Educating Students for the Twenty-first Century. Maldives: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 

Marsh, Jan. Illustrated Letters and Diaries of the Pre-Raphaelites. Batsford, 2018. 

McAlpine, Heather. Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature. Brill, 2019. 

Petiot, Aurelie. The Pre-Raphaelites. Abbeville Press, 2019. 
Prettejohn, Elizabeth. The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites. Tate Gallery, 2007. 
Sweiger, Beth Barton. Seeing Things: Knowledge and Love in History. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
Takamiya, Toshiyuki. From the Deep Waters. Chronicle Books, 1997. 

Wineburg, Sam. "Crazy for History" The Journal of American History 90, no. 4. March 2004.   


Museums with Pre-Raphaelite Collections

Tate Britain 
The De Morgan Centre 
Delaware Art Museum 
Harvard Art Museum 
The Walker Art Gallery 
Lady Lever Art Gallery and Collection 
Sudley Art House Gallery 
Fogg Museum 
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 
Manchester Art Gallery 
The Ashmolean Museum 

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