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June 23, 2011
Diane Waggoner, ed. The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848–1875 Exh. cat. Washington, DC and Aldershot, UK: Lund Humphries in association with National Gallery of Art, 2010. 240 pp.; 198 color ills.; 3 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781848220676)

Exhibition schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 31, 2010–January 30, 2011; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, March 6–May 29, 2011

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2011.71

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John Everett Millais. A Huguenot, on Saint Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1851–1852). Oil on canvas. 91.4 x 62.2 cm (36 x 24 1/2 in.). The Makins Collection.

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The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848–1875, on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, was a concise and handsome exhibition that addressed an ambitious topic: the dynamic interaction between artistic media from the late 1840s until the 1870s. The artistic movement known as Pre-Raphaelitism provided the lens that focused this investigation. Photography was still in its first decade as public knowledge when the young artists who styled themselves the Pre-Raphaelite...