Pre -Raphaelite masterpieces

Pre -Raphaelites (Eng. Pre -Raphaelites) - a special direction in English painting, poetry and applied art of the second half of the 19th century, focused on the work of artists of late Gothic and early Renaissance, creativity "to Raphael", hence the name of the Brotherhood created by his members for the struggle to fight With a blind imitation of classical examples in academicism and with conventions of Victorian art.
Pre -Raphaelites believed that everything needs to be written from nature, as models they chose friends or relatives, most of their works were associated with the realism and critical attitude to the social problems of Victorian England, they often illustrated literary works, there were a lot of work and mythological work And religious stories. Brotherhood artists have done a lot for the development of symbolism in English art.
This book presents the work of the most significant artists for this movement: Ford Madox Brown, who refused to join the Brotherhood, but dividing his ideas, the founders of the Brotherhood - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Willman Holmen Hunt and John Everett Milles, their closest associate of Arthur Hugues , as well as John William Waterhouse, on whose work the art of the prepectaulites had a huge impact