pre-raphaelitism

Traces the history of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, profiling the seven young English artists who created it, discussing how their practices changed the history of art, and studying the form's basic techniques.

A study of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of seven young men--some of them student artists in the Royal Academy Schools--formed in 1848 in London, with profiles of Brotherhood members and associates, and reproductions and descriptions of fifty paintings.