Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
- Kategoria:
- biografia, autobiografia, pamiętnik
- Tytuł oryginału:
- Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
- Wydawnictwo:
- Andre Deutsch
- Data wydania:
- 2004-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2004-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 230
- Czas czytania
- 3 godz. 50 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780233004020
- Tagi:
- Lizzie Siddal Pre-raphaelite malarstwo
The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre- Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862. In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know her name always recognise her face: she is Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. With many parallels in the modern-day world of art and fashion, this biography takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Rossetti's life and, finally, brings her to the forefront of her own.