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Pre-Raphaelite a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an association of British painters and writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--82), Holman Hunt (1827--1910), and Sir John Everett Millais (1829--96), founded in 1848 to combat the shallow conventionalism of academic painting and revive the fidelity to nature and the vivid realistic colour that they considered typical of Italian painting before Raphael (1483--1520) www.artchive.com/ftp_site_reg.htm How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood endures mostly as a historical curiosity. The art gallery, as we know it, was a product of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which also invented the hot artist, the art movement, the breakthrough, the press release, the manifesto, the buzz of sensational openings, and the idea that art must be set on a new path. |
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