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Victorian art and architecture

Early Victorian

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Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times
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Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin, Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
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Smirke, The British Museum
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The Pre-Raphaelites and mid-Victorian art

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A Beginner's Guide to the Pre-Raphaelites
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The Aesthetic Movement
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Pre-Raphaelites: Curator's choice - Millais's Isabella
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Sir John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents
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Sir John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents
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Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia
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Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia
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Millais, Mariana
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Millais, Mariana
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Millais, Portrait of John Ruskin
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Millais, The Vale of Rest
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Millais, The Vale of Rest
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Hunt, Claudio and Isabella
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Hunt, Claudio and Isabella
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Hunt, Our English Coasts ("Strayed Sheep")
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Hunt, Our English Coasts ("Strayed Sheep")
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Hunt, the Awakening Conscience
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Hunt, The Awakening Conscience
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Ford Madox Brown, Work
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Pre-Raphaelites: Curator's choice - Ford Madox Brown's 'Work'
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Rossetti, Ecce Ancilla Domini
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Rossetti, Beata Beatrix
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Rossetti, Proserpine
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Wallis, Chatterton
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Wallis, Chatterton
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Dyce's Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th, 1858
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Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th, 1858
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Emily Mary Osborn, Nameless and Friendless
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John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Thoughts of the Past
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John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Thoughts of the Past
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Burne-Jones, The Golden Stairs
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Burne-Jones, The Golden Stairs
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Burne-Jones, King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
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Burne-Jones, King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
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Sleeping Beauty — but without the Kiss: Burne-Jones and the Briar Rose series
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Burne-Jones, The Depths of the Sea
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Burne-Jones, Hope
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Burne-Jones, Hope
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Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott
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William Butterfield, All Saints, Margaret Street
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William Morris and Philip Webb, Red House
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Hunt, Our English CoastsGet 4 of 5 questions to level up!
Pre-RaphaelitesGet 9 of 12 questions to level up!

Late Victorian

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Leighton, an Athlete Wrestling with a Python
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Leighton, Bath of Psyche
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Alma-Tadema, Listening to Homer
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Alma-Tadema, Listening to Homer
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GF Watts, The Minotaur
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Room: 1890-1910
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Late Victorian Get 3 of 4 questions to level up!

About this unit

Brought to you by Smarthistory. Pugin, Burne-Jones and other 19th-century British artists responded to the industrialized present by looking to an idealized past.