Pre-Raphaelite
The brotherhood's early doctrines, as defined by William Michael Rossetti, were expressed in four declarations:
to have genuine ideas to express;
to study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them;
to sympathise 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;
most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues.
Name
Pre-Raphaelite
Description
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites and sometimes abbreviated as PRB) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848.
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Start date
1848