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This 3-page paper examines the short-lived 19th century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art movement, and its context. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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short time span of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Nor have as many art movements been investigated and reviewed and rehashed quite as much, especially given the short time span in which
"the Brotherhood" was actually in existence. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood consisted of a group of English artists who banded together in 1848 in
an attempt to reduce the clutter of overblown, over accentuated visual art to its purest and most simplistic form (Delahunt). The formation of the PRB was in direct contrast, and
perhaps some rebellion, to what was then being perceived as materialism that was resulting from Englands industrial revolution (Delahunt). The Brotherhood based
its art on that of Raphael, an Italian artist who died in 1520, believing that Raphael, out of all of the renaissance painters of the time, best exemplified the simplicity
and beauty of the art form (Delahunt). The major subjects targeted by the Brotherhood was nature, and they strove to "sympathize with
what is direct, serious and heartfelt in their earlier art, and to infuse their works with literary symbolism, bright colors, and attention to detail" (Delahunt). The RPB consisted of Dante
Gabriel Rossetti; William Holman Hunt; John Everett Millais; James Collinson; Frederic George Stephens; Thomas Woolner; and writer William Michael Rossetti (Delahunt). Though
the Brotherhoods initial attempts were laughed at, the support of John Ruskin, an influential art critic, helped the artists on their way (Delahunt). Despite it all, however, RPB died out
in 1854, though a second wave came about later on in the century, characterized by "pseudo-medeival subjects and ethereal female beauties" (Delahunt). The main artists of this period included Dante
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