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The Look of Love: Romantic Illustration through the Ages

British Library

4/5 ( ratings)

A celebration of love through the ages, gathering together more than 100 romantic illustrations from the flirtatious to the kitsch, the charming to the ironic. The vintage imagery is drawn from a huge range of sources — fashion magazines, medieval illuminated manuscripts, book covers, paintings, and cartoons — and it ranges from exquisite depictions of courtly love in the Middle Ages to the pulp novels of the twentieth century; from elves in fairy-land to a honeymoon in space.

Great lovers from literature — Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, Vishnu and Lakshmi — are lavishly represented alongside a host of first kisses, assignations in the garden, moonlight serenades, and walks down the aisle.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: British Library Publishing

Release: February 15, 2014

ISBN: 071235719X

ISBN 13: 9780712357197

The Look of Love: Romantic Illustration through the Ages

British Library

4/5 ( ratings)

A celebration of love through the ages, gathering together more than 100 romantic illustrations from the flirtatious to the kitsch, the charming to the ironic. The vintage imagery is drawn from a huge range of sources — fashion magazines, medieval illuminated manuscripts, book covers, paintings, and cartoons — and it ranges from exquisite depictions of courtly love in the Middle Ages to the pulp novels of the twentieth century; from elves in fairy-land to a honeymoon in space.

Great lovers from literature — Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, Vishnu and Lakshmi — are lavishly represented alongside a host of first kisses, assignations in the garden, moonlight serenades, and walks down the aisle.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: British Library Publishing

Release: February 15, 2014

ISBN: 071235719X

ISBN 13: 9780712357197

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