Zaynub Zaman
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Zaynub Zaman
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Researcher, Lecturer @ UoM. Editor of Pre-Raphaelite Society Review. Loves all things to do with the Pre-Raphaelites, 19thC, Dante, and Islamicate history. Views own. She/her.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The painting challenges us to consider whose work we choose to value and who ultimately contributes to a healthy society - the worker, artists, intellectuals or those in the shadows?
December 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Madox Brown transforms workers into modern heroes. Working classes are centred: light bathes a group of muscle bound manual labourers, a young girl cradles an orphaned baby in her arms. The baby looks out from the canvas to an uncertain future.
December 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Featuring pioneering artist Emma Sandys, the Kashmiri connection to Pre-Raphaelite art, Bodichon, Sawyer, the Madox Browns, William Morris, John Atkinson Grimshaw and more!

🖼️ Work, Ford Madox Brown (1863), Oil on Canvas. @BM_AG
December 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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August 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Painting's subject dramatizes a sonnet by Dante, in which three medieval poets and their unrequited loves are harmoniously reconciled. Here the lovers effortlessly overcome the barriers that kept them separate. An impossible dream come to life.
August 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Cover art 🖼️: D.G. Rossetti, The Boat of Love (1881) Oil on Canvas. © Birmingham Art Gallery. Fabric: Silk Chiffon, Circa 1980s.
August 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Oh has the world changed or have I changed?
June 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM