Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
✍ Scribed by Hawksley, Lucinda
- Book ID
- 109045397
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch Ltd
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781780121680
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✦ Synopsis
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.
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