English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1325 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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The idea
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in eighteen forty-eight by Holman Hunt, Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others, rejected art after Raphael and sought truth to nature in minute, symbolic detail. Its journal was The Germ. The anchor ties it to Ruskin's admiration for medieval unity.
In practice
Painters and poets; minute detail; the Middle Ages.
Where people slip
It was a movement in painting and poetry.
Your place on the trail
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