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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Group of painters who banded together in 1848 to reform British painting
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (also a poet) William Holman Hunt John Everett Millais
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Combination of realistic and fleshly (even ugly) details and religious subjects, which scandalized critics Interest in studying nature rather than following established rules of composition Inspiration from medieval sources (King Arthur) Bright colors Protest against academic painting (e.g., that of Sir Joshua Reynolds), with its rules about contrast and form.
Rossetti, La Ghirlandata
Rossetti, Proserpine
Artists:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Aubrey Beardsley (also associated with the Decadent movement) Edward Burne-Jones James McNeill Whistler
Pater, continued
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Authors
Aubrey Beardsley Max Beerbohm Ernest Dowson Richard Le Gallienne Lionel Johnson George Meredith William Morris Walter Pater Dante Gabriel Rossetti John Ruskin Algernon Charles Swinburne Arthur Symons Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Gilbert and Sullivans comic opera Patience satirized the Aesthetic movement in the character of Bunthorne, who was based on Oscar Wilde. Wilde was sent on a lecture tour of United States in 1882, in part so that audiences would understand what was being satirized.
Peacock Room
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/peacock/1vr