Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1. THE PRE-RAPHAELITE
MOVEMENT

2. PRE-RAPHAELITE
1848 – LATE
1800S

3. PRE-RAPHAELITE
PRE-RAPHAELITE
BROTHERHOOD
PRB

4. PRE-RAPHAELITE
was a group of English painters, poets and critics,
founded in 1848 by
--William Holman Hunt
--John Everett Millais
--Dante Gabriel Rossetti
WH Hunt
DG Rossetti

5. PRE-RAPHAELITE
The three founders were joined by
--William Michael Rossetti
--James Collinson
--Frederic Georges Stephens
--Thomas Woolner
WM Rossetti,
unofficial organizer
and bibliographer

6. PRE-RAPHAELITE
GOWER STREET
LONDON
1848
THE GEM

7. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Victorian Era
1837-1901

8. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Disenchanted with contemporary academic
painting—most of them were colleagues at the
Royal Academy of Art.

9. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Disparaged the Academy's founding president, Sir
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) as "Sir Sloshua"
Self-portrait
Joshua Reynolds

10. PRE-RAPHAELITE
To have genuine ideas to express;
To study nature attentively, so as to know how to
express them;
To sympathize with what is direct and serious and
heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is
conventional and self-parading and learned by rote;
And most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly
good pictures and statues.
FROM “THE GEM”

11. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Emulated the art of late
medieval and early Renaissance
Europe until the time of
Raphael.
Rafaello Sanziano de
Urbino
1483-1520
The Madonna of the
Meadow
Ca 1502

12. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Their main and immediate objective in art was to
reject the dramatic, artificial Mannerist painting
styles succeeding Raphael and Michelangelo
(hence the term "Pre-Raphaelite") .

13. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Parmigianino
Madonna with the Long
Neck
1534-40
-Elongated proportions
-Highly stylized poses
-Lack of clear perspective

14. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Characteristics:
--minute description of detail
--a luminous palette of bright colors that
recalls the tempera paint used by medieval
artists,
--sincerity, seriousness
--truth to nature
--and subject matter of a noble, religious, or
moralizing nature.

15. PRE-RAPHAELITE
KEY WORDS
 Artistic renewal
 Moral reform
 Medieval culture
 Artist’s personal responsibility

16. PRE-RAPHAELITE
The principles were deliberately non-
dogmatic, since the brotherhood wished to
emphasize the personal responsibility of
individual artists to determine their own ideas
and methods of depiction.
Strove to transmit a message of
artistic renewal and moral reform by
imbuing their art with seriousness,
sincerity, and truth to nature.

17. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Influenced by Romanticism, the
members thought freedom and
responsibility were inseparable.
Nevertheless, they were particularly
fascinated y Medieval culture,
believing it to possess a spiritual and
creative integrity that had been lost in
later eras.

18. PRE-RAPHAELITE
William Holman Hunt, The Hireling Shepherd, 1851

19. PRE-RAPHAELITE
William Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat, oil on canvas, 1854-6

20. PRE-RAPHAELITE
William Holman Hunt
The Awakening Conscience
oil on canvas
1853

21. PRE-RAPHAELITE
William Holman Hunt
The Light of the World
1851

22. PRE-RAPHAELITE
John Everett Milais, Christ in the House of his Parents, 1850

23. PRE-RAPHAELITE
John Everett Milais, Ophelia, oil on canvas, ca. 1851

24. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Daniel Gabriel
Rossetti
Proserpine
oil on canvas
1874
Ancient
Roman goddess whose story
is the basis of a myth or
springtime.

25. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Vision of Fiammetta
oil on canvas
1878

26. PRE-RAPHAELITE
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Found
begun 1869 (unfinished0
oil on canvas

27. PRE-RAPHAELITE
James Collinson
The Holy Family
1850

28. PRE-RAPHAELITE
JW Waterhouse
Hylas and the Nymphs
1896

29. PRE-RAPHAELITE
JW Waterhouse
The Lady of
Shallot
1888

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