Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel

di Lucinda Hawksley (Autore)

Headline Publishing Group, 2023

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.

• Autore: Lucinda Hawksley
• Editore: Headline Publishing Group
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 200 x 130 mm
• Peso: 320 gr.
• EAN: 9781802797923

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