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| Fairies in Victorian art |
Christopher Wood
Antique Collectors' Club, 2000 - 192 pagine
The golden age of fairy painting lasted between 1840-1870, when fairies
found expression in most of the Victorian arts - paintings,
illustration, literature, theater, ballet, and music.
The genre had a
strong literary background, from the books of the Brothers Grimm and
Hans Christian Andersen to Shakespeare's The Tempest and A Midsummer
Night's Dream.
These works, along with the Victorian obsession with
spiritualism and the supernatural, created an atmosphere in which Fairy
painting flourished.
The work of the great fairy painters is examined -
Dadd, Paton, Fitzgerald, and Richard Doyle - along with that of other Victorian painters like Landseer, Fuseli, Millais, Rossetti, and Rackham.
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