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Visual Arts and Art History, year 2

second semester work schedule

Main topic : The Preraphaelite Brotherhood
Aim : Develop your understanding, translating and writing skills.

Method : Text and picture commentaries, translations into English, translations into French, and written expression.

Websearch Class work
An introduction to the Preraphaelites and a commentary

William Holman HUNT and a commentary

John Everett MILLAIS and a commentary

Dante Gabriel ROSSETTI and a commentary
    Written skills :

  • Sentences with two verbs :
    Verb Base / ING / >TO + Verb Base
    Exercises 1, 2, 3
  • Prepositions :
    List and exercises 1 and 2
  • Syntax : The subject precedes the verb ; exercise.
  • Syntax : Nothing between the verb and the object ; exercise
Speaking skills

Picture Gallery :


Ophelia by Millais
picture commentary
and video commentary

Millais : Christ in
the Carpenter's Shop

commentary
and video commentary

Millais : Isabella
(1848-49)
video commentary

Millais : Ferdinand
Lured by Ariel

commentary

Millais : John Ruskin
commentary

Millais : Autumn Leaves
commentary.

Hunt : The Missionary
commentary

Hunt : Rienzi
Commentary

Hunt :
The Awakening Conscience
Commentary
and video commentary

Hunt : Light of the World
Commentary


Hunt : Isabella and the pot of Basil
Commentary

Rossetti :
The Girlhood of Mary
commentary

Rossetti : Day Dream
commentary

Rossetti : Beata Beatrix
commentary

Rossetti :
Ecce Ancilla Domini! (1849)
written commentary
video commentary

Rossetti :
Aurelia (Fazio s Mistress)
commentary

Waterhouse : La Belle
Dame sans Mercy



Cowper : La Belle
Dame sans Mercy

Cowper's biography


Waterhouse :
I am Half-sick of Shadows
Said the Lady of Shalott
(1915)


Waterhouse :
The Lady of Shalott
Looking at Lancelot
(1894)


Waterhouse :
The Lady of Shalott (1888)

Video commentary

Ford Madox Brown :
Romeo and Juliet
Brown's biography

Ford Madox Brown :
John Wycliffe

Ford Madox Brown :
Manfred on the Jungfrau

Ford Madox Brown :
Work
Video commentary

Ford Madox Brown :
The Prisoner of Chillon
Commentary

Elizabeth Siddal :
Lady Clare
Siddal's biography

Elizabeth Siddal :
Self-portrait
Commentary

Barbara Leigh Smith,
Anna Mary Howitt
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti :
Elizabeth Siddal
Watch a video about Elizabeth Sidal,
the real Ophelia

Burne-Jones :
Golden Stairs
Video commentary
A video biography

Burne-Jones :
the Hand Refrains
(Pygmalion and Galatea)
Commentary

Burne-Jones :
The Beguiling of Merlin
Commentary

Burne-Jones :
Music, Old West Kirk, Scotland
Retrospective video on Burne-Jones
Video visit of the Red House,
Milliam Morris's house