I wanted to share with you news that the first version of the Simeon
Solomon Research Archive is now live on the Internet. This web site was
designed by me and currently includes a near-complete bibliography of works
on Solomon from 1860-2000. Some of these sources will include annotations
taken from my published annotated bibliography last year. In other cases,
the full-text of the original source document has been made available.
This is an ongoing project that will gradually include more annotations,
full-text documents, digital images, and a brief biography on him.
For those of you who aren't sure who he was, Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) was
a Jewish Pre-Raphaelite artist whose career encompassed a variety of works,
including both Jewish and Greco-Roman images. He was a follower of Dante
Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Sir Edward Burne-Jones
once declared Solomon to be "the best of us all." Solomon was a homosexual
who was arrested for homosexual behavior in 1873, thereafter making him a
social outcast by his peers and society. He died in 1905 still having been
a prolific artist, although financially destitute.
I welcome your comments. The web site is accessible by going to
http://www.fau.edu/solomon/.
-- Roberto
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