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The '''Pre-Raphaelites''' (''Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,'' ''PRB'') was a Victorian-era group, which started originally as an art movement and grew to include poets and writers. The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites often featured an extremely high degree of realism—what would now be called photorealism—religious and Arthurian themes; and pictures that explicitly told a story, or a part of a story. | The '''Pre-Raphaelites''' (''Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,'' ''PRB'') was a Victorian-era group, which started originally as an art movement and grew to include poets and writers. The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites often featured an extremely high degree of realism—what would now be called photorealism—religious and Arthurian themes; and pictures that explicitly told a story, or a part of a story. | ||
| − | Famous Pre-Raphaelite artists included William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and Edward Burne-Jones. [[William Morris]], founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, and art critic [[John Ruskin]] | + | Famous Pre-Raphaelite artists included William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and Edward Burne-Jones. [[William Morris]], founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, and art critic [[John Ruskin]] were loosely associated with the group. |
Revision as of 22:48, May 22, 2007
The Pre-Raphaelites (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, PRB) was a Victorian-era group, which started originally as an art movement and grew to include poets and writers. The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites often featured an extremely high degree of realism—what would now be called photorealism—religious and Arthurian themes; and pictures that explicitly told a story, or a part of a story.
Famous Pre-Raphaelite artists included William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and Edward Burne-Jones. William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, and art critic John Ruskin were loosely associated with the group.