Late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images

The age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts : symbolism in Britain, 1860-1910 / edited by Andrew Wilton and Robert Upstone ; with contributions by Barbara Bryant [and others].

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Symbolism (Art movement)

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The age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts : symbolism in Britain, 1860-1910 / edited by Andrew Wilton and Robert Upstone ; with contributions by Barbara Bryant [and others].