Article: Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites

Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, edited by Colin Cruise, London and New York: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery in association with Merrell Publishers Ltd, 2005

In 1869, a critic for The Athenaeum responded doubtfully to Simeon Solomon's painting A Saint of the Eastern Church (1867-68): "There is a look of luxury about this work which is almost sensual, and is strangely at variance with the assumed monumental character of the ruling idea ... [The figure] too obviously lacks manliness to satisfy us, even in respect to Art; yet it is very beautiful' (p.133). Through slights about his 'aberrant eccentricities of genius' (p.107) and the 'repulsive sentiment' of his ...

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