Lizzie Siddal
€29.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781802797923 |
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| Publisher | |
| Publishing Date | 04/08/2023 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €28.21 |
| Tax | €1.69 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €29.90 |
| Availability | 9 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.