Between Paintings and Poetry

In art, it refers to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of avantgarde painters (associated with the art critic John Ruskin).

In literature it describes the poets who had some connections with these artists and whose work shares some of the characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite art.

The Pre-Raphaelites turned away from the materialism of industrialised England.

Beauty and comparative simplicity of the Medioeval world

Fidelity to nature: first-hand ditailed representation of humble objects and natural elements in natural light

Preference of bright, jewel-like colours that where often used in a symbolic way

Rossetti concentrated on bust-length oil paintings of sensuous beautiful women rendered in vibrant colours (whose image defied every Victorian convention).

Several of its members wrote poetry themselves.

Pre-Rapahelite paintings were inspired by the works of Dante, Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson

Emphasis on beautiful, sensuous details Symblic meaning associated with

common objects or situations Feelings of nostalgia for a dream-like

medieval world Use of melodious language

Dante Gabriel RossettiJohn Millais

William Holman Hunt

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Dante Gabriel RossettiJohn Millais

William Holman Hunt

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Dante Gabriel RossettiJohn Millais

William Holman Hunt

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