juxtapose the reality of medieval Europe with an idealized vision of the East

—Alfonso Huerta

Patricia Harpring is managing editor of the Getty Vocabulary Program

44 duotone illustrations

“This volume is a welcome addition to the slim corpus of monographs on sixteenth-century-illuminated manuscripts

Lives of William Blake SM Campaign Nov 20 juxtapose the reality of medievalHenry Crabb Robinson, John Thomas Smith, and Alexander Gilchrist William Blake (17571827) was a British painter, printmaker, poet, and mystical thinker who became one of the leading figures of Romanticism. This volume presents the earliest critical essay on his art by journalist and diarist Henry Crabb Robinson, reproduced here in full for the first time in English, as well as illuminating biographical texts by painter John Thomas Smith and writer