The Pre-Raphaelites

Pre-Raphaelites


The  Pre-Raphaelites were a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later on the three founders were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form the seven-member "brotherhood".
The group's main intention was to change art by refusing to accept the Mannerist norms which were first adopted by Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood wanted to use and imply the abundant detail in the surroundings, intense colors and the artworks of Quattrocento Italian art.
Through the PRB, the brotherhood announced in hinted form the arrival of a new movement in British art. The group continued to accept the concepts of history painting and the imitation of the living word through art. The Pre-Raphaelites defined themselves as a movement which restructured certain aspects of art because they brought change where it was needed. The group's discussions and meetings were recorded in a specific journal called the Pre-Raphaelite Journal.


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