Pre-Raphaelite art

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Pre-Raphaelite art is a 19th-century British movement characterized by vivid color, meticulous detail, and romantic or medieval themes in reaction against academic painting conventions.


Statements (98)
Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century art movement
art movement
aimedTo emulate art before Raphael
return to truth to nature
revive sincerity in art
associatedWith Arts and Crafts decorative design
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
Oxford Union murals
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
documentedIn The Germ
contemporary Victorian art criticism
endTime late 19th century
exhibitedAt Grosvenor Gallery
Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition 1857
Royal Academy of Arts
genre history painting
landscape painting
literary painting
portraiture
religious painting
hasCharacteristic anti-academic stance
bright, jewel-like palette
emphasis on symbolism
flattened picture space
idealized beauty
literary subject matter
medieval themes
medievalism
meticulous detail
moral seriousness
naturalistic detail
romantic themes
sharp focus throughout the image
vivid color
hasNotableArtist Arthur Hughes
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edward Burne-Jones
Elizabeth Siddal
Evelyn De Morgan
Ford Madox Brown
Frederic Sandys
John Brett
John Everett Millais
John William Waterhouse
Marie Spartali Stillman
Simeon Solomon
William Holman Hunt
William Morris
hasPart Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
late Pre-Raphaelite movement
second-generation Pre-Raphaelites
influenced 20th-century fantasy art
Aestheticism
Art Nouveau
Arts and Crafts movement
Symbolism
fantasy illustration
late 19th-century book illustration
influencedBy Gothic Revival
John Ruskin’s art criticism
Quattrocento art
Romanticism
early Italian Renaissance painting
medieval art
movementOf decorative arts
drawing
illustration
painting
notableWork Beata Beatrix
Ophelia
The Awakening Conscience
The Beguiling of Merlin
The Blessed Damozel
The Blind Girl
The Golden Stairs
The Hireling Shepherd
The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott (Waterhouse)
The Last of England
The Light of the World
The Scapegoat
period Victorian era
reactionAgainst Royal Academy conventions
academic painting
idealized classicism
startTime 1848
typicalSubject Arthurian legends
Dante’s writings
Shakespearean themes
biblical scenes
contemporary moral narratives
medieval romance
usesTechnique brightly colored glazes
careful underdrawing
detailed foreground flora
painting from nature
symbolic use of plants and objects

Referenced by (74)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Arthur Hughes ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Arthur Hughes ("Pre-Raphaelite movement")
Beata Beatrix ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Dante Gabriel Rossetti ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Edward Burne-Jones ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Elizabeth Siddal ("Pre-Raphaelite")
Evelyn De Morgan ("Pre-Raphaelite movement")
Ford Madox Brown ("Pre-Raphaelite movement")
Frederic Sandys ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Frederic Sandys ("Pre-Raphaelitism")
John Everett Millais ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
John Everett Millais ("Pre-Raphaelitism")
John William Waterhouse ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. ("Pre-Raphaelite movement")
Ophelia ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Simeon Solomon ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
The Awakening Conscience ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
The Beguiling of Merlin ("Pre-Raphaelite")
The Blessed Damozel ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
The Blind Girl ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
The Germ ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
The Golden Stairs ("Pre-Raphaelite")
The Hireling Shepherd ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
The Last of England ("Pre-Raphaelite")
The Light of the World ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
The Scapegoat ("Pre-Raphaelite")
William Holman Hunt ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
William Morris ("Pre-Raphaelite circle")
movement
Aestheticism ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Arthur Hughes ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ideals")
Aubrey Beardsley ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Fernand Khnopff ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
John William Waterhouse ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Simeon Solomon ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Symbolist movement in art ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Walter Crane ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
William Morris ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
influencedBy
Arthur Hughes ("Pre-Raphaelite circle")
Elizabeth Siddal ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Ford Madox Brown ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Frederic Sandys ("Pre-Raphaelite circle")
Grosvenor Gallery ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Pre-Raphaelite art ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
associatedWith
Beata Beatrix ("Pre-Raphaelite")
Elizabeth Siddal ("Pre-Raphaelite style")
Ophelia ("Pre-Raphaelite")
The Beguiling of Merlin ("Pre-Raphaelite")
William Holman Hunt ("Pre-Raphaelitism")
artStyle
The Awakening Conscience ("Pre-Raphaelite moral series by William Holman Hunt")
The Beguiling of Merlin ("Pre-Raphaelite art canon")
The Scapegoat
partOf
Dante Gabriel Rossetti ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
William Holman Hunt ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
coFounded
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery
hasCollection
Ford Madox Brown ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
Nazarene movement ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
influenced
The Golden Stairs ("British Symbolism")
artHistoricalContext
The Blind Girl ("Pre-Raphaelite")
artisticStyle
Victorian aesthetics ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
associatedWithMovement
John Everett Millais ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
co-founded
Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition 1857 ("Pre-Raphaelite paintings")
exhibitedWork
The Germ ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
foundedBy
Oxford University Museum of Natural History ("Pre-Raphaelite artists")
hasArtworkBy
Victorian era ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
hasCulturalMovement
Hogsmill River
hasCulturalSignificance
Evelyn De Morgan ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
hasInfluence
Walker Art Gallery ("Pre-Raphaelite paintings")
hasNotableWork
Pre-Raphaelite art ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
hasPart
The Blessed Damozel ("Pre-Raphaelite")
literaryMovement
John Everett Millais ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
member of
William Holman Hunt ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood")
memberOf
The Golden Stairs ("Pre-Raphaelite")
style
The Germ
subject

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