The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood:

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
between Painting and Poetry
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Nature of the movement

• 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.

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Where does the name come from?

• The Pre-Raphaelites thought Raphael had produced
  technically perfect religious pictures, but with
  little spiritual feeling.
• On the contrary, they admired the art and
  painters before Raphael.

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Pre-Raphaelite painters features

• Beauty and comparative semplicity 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).
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Pre-Raphaelite poetry

• Several of its members wrote poetry themselves.

• Also, many of the most notable Pre-Raphaelite
  paintings were inspired by the works of Dante,
  Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson.

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Pre-Raphaelite poetrys features

• Emphasis on beautiful, sensuous details

• Symbolic meaning associated with common objects
  or situations

• Feelings of nostalgia for a dream-like Medioeval
  world

• Use of melodious language

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The 2nd wave of the Pre-Raphaelitism

• Under Klimts direction the second wave of the
  PRB developed in 1860s into Aesthetic
  Pre-Raphaelitism, which opened the way to the
  Arts and Crafts Movement, to Aestheticism and
  Decadentism and to Art Nouveau.In this second
  wave two new artists emerged
• Sir Edward Burne-Jones, who painted
  beautiful
• Romantic dreams
• William Morris, who initiated a trend of
  interior
• decoration.

• In this second wave literature focused on
  sensuous description and subjective psycological
  states.

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Who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
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• Dante Gabriel Rossetti

John Millais
William Holman Hunt
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The dream
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Monna Vanna
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Proserpine
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Who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
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• Dante Gabriel Rossetti

John Millais
William Holman Hunt
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Ophelia
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The bridesmaid
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The martyr of the Solway
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Who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
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• Dante Gabriel Rossetti

John Millais
William Holman Hunt
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Il dolce far niente
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Isabella and the pot of basil
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Peasant girl