The victorian era

Visual art:
the pre-raphaelitism
 Pre-Raphaelites: An Introduction
The term "pre-Raphaelites" denotes an artistic movement emerged in Victorian England, in mid-
nineteenth century, which advocated a direct study of nature out of school every convention and
return to an ethic of its artistic tradition of painting before to Raphael (1483-1520).
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was founded in 1849 by William Holman Hunt (1827-1910),
D.G. Rossetti, John Everett Millais (1829-1896), William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Thomas
Woolner, and F. G. Stephens to revitalize the arts.

The proposals of the

Pre-Raphaelites

Recovery of The amorous attention to

spontaneous art details and the simplicity of
inspired by nature the subjects combined
intensity of expression.

The brilliance of
colors terse and
detailed pictorial
realism.
 Sir John Everett Millais
Of the three principal members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood formed in 1848 John Millais
certainly had the greatest natural facility as a painter. Together with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hunt
and Millais set out to paint with a simplicity and ingenuousness which they took to be the spirit in
which mediaeval art was practised. They believed implicitly inaccurate realism and bright colour.
Millais particularly used a technique whereby he painted in colour on a wet white ground to
achieve greater effects of luminosity.

In these paintings we find the typical subject

of nature and the brilliant use of colors
typical of Pre –Raphaelites.
Amato Giulia III D