2015 Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies to discuss Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1:27 p.m., Oct. 28, 2015--Nancy Rose Marshall, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Delaware Library/Delaware Art Museum 2015 Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies, will speak on “A Pre-Raphaelite Paints Music: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Delaware Art Museum’s Veronica Veronese” on Wednesday, Nov. 18. 

The lecture, which is open to the campus community and the public, will take place at 5 p.m. in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room near the entrance of the Morris Library on the University of Delaware campus in Newark. 

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Light refreshments will follow the lecture. Walk-ins are welcome, but those who plan to attend are asked to RSVP for catering purposes to libraryrsvp@winsor.lib. udel.edu or call 302-831-2231.

During her residency as the 2015 Pre-Raphaelite Fellow, Marshall will work on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a monograph commissioned by Phaedon Press. Unlike many studies that examine Rossetti in isolation from mainstream Victorian culture, this book places him in specific social-historical contexts. 

While in Delaware, Marshall will make considerable use of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection and the holdings of the Special Collections Department in the University of Delaware Library as well as examining the Rossetti artworks — including the 1872 painting Veronica Veronese — and associated curatorial files in the Delaware Art Museum.

A specialist in Victorian art and visual culture, Marshall is the co-author of the exhibition catalogue James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love (Yale Center for British Art, 1999). Her book on the construction of imperialist metropolitan modernity in fine art, City of Gold and Mud: Painting Victorian London, was published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in 2012.

Awarded annually, the short-term, one-month Pre-Raphaelite Fellowship is intended for scholars conducting significant research in the lives and works of the Pre-Raphaelites and their friends, associates and followers. Research of a wider scope, which considers the Pre-Raphaelite movement and related topics in relation to Victorian art and literature, and cultural or social history, is also supported. 

With comprehensive holdings in books, periodicals, electronic resources and microforms, the University of Delaware Library is a major resource for the study of literature and art. Special Collections contains materials related to the Pre-Raphaelites who are also well-represented in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection of Victorian books, manuscripts and artworks. 

The Delaware Art Museum is home to the most important collection of Pre-Raphaelite art in the United States. Assembled largely by Samuel Bancroft Jr., the collection includes paintings, works on paper, decorative arts, manuscripts and letters, and is augmented by the museum’s Helen Farr Sloan art library.

For further information, contact Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow, University of Delaware Library, at marksl@udel.edu or 302-831-3250.