The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics founded in London in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, joined by others. They rejected what they saw as the formulaic academic style taught after Raphael and sought a return to the detail, bright color and sincerity of Italian and Flemish painting before him. Their works often took subjects from the Bible, literature and medieval legend, painted with close attention to nature. They were first criticized and then supported by the critic John Ruskin. The Brotherhood itself broke up within a few years, but its influence continued through later painters like Edward Burne-Jones and through the Arts and Crafts movement.
Before and after
- 2 October 1847Birth of Paul von Hindenburg
- 4 November 1847Death of Felix Mendelssohn
- 8 November 1847Birth of Bram Stoker
- 29 November 1847Whitman massacre
- 1848Rise of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- 1848Der Ring des Nibelungen
- 1848Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
- from 1848 to 1849First Italian War of Independence
- from 12 January 1848 to 4 October 1849European Revolutions of 1848
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1792Publication of La Marseillaise
- 5 May 1821Founding of The Guardian
- 7 May 1824Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres
- c. 1860sImpressionism
- 26 November 1865Publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- 19 March 1882Construction of Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
The era
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