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Article: Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
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- Visual Culture in Britain
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- January 1, 2007
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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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