![]() ![]() Considered heretical by many and frequently admonished for a lack of grace in composition the group disbanded after only a few years. They and the artists who joined with them, including William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, and Frederick George Stephens, created bright works representing nature and literary themes in fresh detail and color. Critical of the Royal Academy's formulaic works, these painters believed that painting had been misdirected since Raphael. Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt produced a statement of ideas that revolutionized art practice in Victorian England. ![]() It shows us why, a century and a half later, Pre-Raphaelite art retains its power to fascinate, haunt, and often shock its viewers. This accessible new study provides the most comprehensive view of the movement to date. Though always controversial in art circles, the Pre-Raphaelites have also always been extremely popular with museum goers. ![]()
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