Art
Book Reviews
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Another Franny Moyle book is Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites. This was made into a BBC series that I seemed to have missed. Maybe I'll have to track that down. I had a thing for the PR Brotherhood and it was nice to visit some of the paintings at Tate Britain again on my last trip. They certainly had quite interesting love lives along with their art.
A YouTube subscriber recommended books by Franny Moyle to me. And I knew I would like to read more about Turner and you just have to love a title like The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner. Often with great artists you mostly hear about the art and technique rather than the person. This weighty tome takes care of that.
Hubby got this one out of the library for me. The Foreign Invention of British Art is a new book. For some reason I started in the middle of the book with the chapter on Van Dyck. The rest of the chapters feature other artists from Europe who made their home at least for a point of their careers in England. Really British Art wouldn't have been the same without them. Many were encounter while the rich were doing the Grand Tour.