Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelites

As the Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood there where: John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti who were English Painters, Poets and Critics. They were joined together by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner. These seven members formed the brotherhood. The seven painters, during the late Victorian England they admired and emulated late medieval and where high renaissance artists. This type of art is a reminder of artists like Raphael and Michelangelo. The three most known people from the brotherhood were: John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt. The Pre-Raphaelites headed back to bright, rich color and full attention to the detailed work on their paintings, to show full effect. They showed a spiritual response to the art and the importance of observing nature, examples are of the medieval art.

The Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood where formed in 1848 in John Millais’ parents’ house. John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt both attended the Royal Academy of Arts. The Royal Academy of Arts is an independent art Institution founded in London in the 18^th Century. Both Hunt and Millais went to the same sketching club, which the club was called Cyclographic Club. The meeting point of Rossetti with Hunt was after Rossetti saw Hunt’s painting “The Eve of St.Agnes,” the painting was named after the Keat poem which had the same name. Rossetti was very meaningful between paintings and poems, him being a poet and a painter. Right after Millais, Hunt and Rossetti formed the Pre-Raphaelites, four other members wanted to join the brotherhood, them being William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner, being there were seven in all in the brotherhood.

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