The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
a group of seven young artists banded together in 1848 against what they felt was an artificial and mannered approach to painting taught at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.
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They called themselves the ‘Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’ (PRB), a name that expressed their preference for late medieval and early Renaissance art that came ‘before Raphael’.
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The painters were: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, James Collinson and Frederic George Stephens.
The non-painters were: sculptor Thomas Woolner and the critic -William Michael Rossetti.
• The artists advocated a return to the simplicity and sincerity of subject and style found in an earlier age.
• Their paintings of religious subject were characterized by flattened perspective, sharp outlines, bright colours and close attention to details .
• The PRB also emphasized precise, almost photographic representation of even humble objects, particularly those in the immediate foreground
• Believing that the arts were closely allied, the PRB encouraged artists and writers to practice each other's arts.
• Literature was always as important as fine art to the Pre-Raphaelites; their paintings are often inspired by subjects from the bible, medieval romances, Arthurian legends, Ovid, Chaucer and Shakespeare.
• Interested in the beauty and sound of language, Pre-Raphaelite experimented with forms such as the ballad, lyric and dramatic monologue.
By 1854 the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had gone their individual ways, but their style had a wide influence and gained many followers during the 1850s and early ’60s
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