num_pages: 256
description: In 1848 a group of seven disillusioned artists comprising the Rossettis John Everett Millais William Holman Hunt Frederic Stephens Thomas Wooner and James Collinson formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Initially they were ridiculed in the art world for their pretension and subject matter but ten years after their foundation no self-respecting Victorian would admit to being ignorant of Pre-Raphaelite art.The movement later began to change direction as new influences were brought to bear on the group; Dante Gabriel Rossetti came to the fore alongside artists such as Walter Howell Deverell and Edward Burne-Jones as well as William Morris the founding father of the Arts and Crafts movement. Essential Pre-Raphaelitesexamines the work of the movement its loosely affiliated personalities diverse subject matter and profound effect on nineteenth-and twentieth-century art.
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title: Essential Pre-Raphaelites
publisher: Dempsey Parr