The document discusses the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a 19th century art movement that rejected mainstream academic art in favor of a more realistic, detailed style inspired by late medieval and early Renaissance art prior to Raphael. The movement included painters and poets who sought to portray nature with spiritual sincerity. Key features of Pre-Raphaelite art included realistic details, bright colors sometimes used symbolically, and inspiration from poets like Dante and Shakespeare. The movement had two waves, with the second developing in the 1860s under Klimt and influencing the Arts and Crafts movement.

1. The
Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood:
between Painting and
Poetry

2. Nature of the movement
In art it refers to the Pre- In literature it describes
Raphaelite Brotherhood, the poets who had some
a group of avantgarde connections with these
painters artists and whose work
(associated with the art shares some of the
critic John Ruskin). characteristics of Pre-
Raphaelite art.
The Pre-Raphaelites turned away from the materialism of
industrialised England.

3. 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.

4. 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).

5. 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.

6. Pre-Raphaelite poetry’s features
• Emphasis on beautiful, sensuous details
• Symbolic meaning associated with
common objects or situations
• Feelings of nostalgia for a dream-like
Medieval world
• Use of melodious language

7. The 2nd wave of the Pre-Raphaelitism
• Under Klimt’s 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?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John Millais
William Holman Hunt