Elizabeth Prettejohn

Elizabeth Prettejohn is an author of several book dealing with art history and has also written exhibition catalogues and articles to magazines ("Burlington Magazine", "Journal of Victorian Culture", "Art Bulletin"). Examples include "The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites" (2000), "Art for Art's Sake" (2007), "Interpreting Sargent" and "Rossetti and his Circle" (1998). She is the editor of "After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England" (1999) and has also coedited and coauthored books. For example of coedited books "Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity" with Tim Barringer and "Imagining Rome" (1996). She is the professor of history of art at the University of Bristol. She has also been the Professor of Modern Art at the University of Plymouth and the curator of Paintings and Sculpture at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. She has studied at Harvard University and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

References

* [http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/almatadema.htm "Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the Modern City of Ancient Rome"]
* [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300135497 "Art for Art's Sake"]
* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/arthistory/department/staff/ep.html "Elizabeth Prettejohn"]