num_pages: 256
description: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britains first modern art movement the Brotherhood combined rebellion and revivalism scientific precision and imaginative grandeur. Today the works of the Pre-Raphaelites are among the best known of all English paintings and yet they have often been dismissed or misunderstood as Victoriana or escapism. This fascinating book convincingly corrects that view examining works in a wide variety of media and demonstrating the broad scope of the movements revolutionary ideas about art design and society.Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais the Pre-Raphaelites unflinchingly radical style inspired by the purity of early Renaissance painting defied convention provoked critics and entranced audiences. Many of their most famous paintings are featured including Millaiss Ophelia and Ford Madox Browns The Last of England. This book also includes sculpture photography and the applied arts the last of which shows the important role the Brotherhood played in the early development of the Arts and Crafts movement and the socialist ideas of the poet designer and theorist William Morris.
language: English
title: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design
publisher: Yale University Press