Pre-raphaelites

[Anonymouse]

I know this may seem boring and the quality of art may not be as impressive to you but I have been covering the Pre-Raphaelites and I really like some of their paintings and I thought I would share some of them here, at least the ones that somehow touched my insignificant rodent heart. For those who have never heard of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, they started in 1848 and the three main members were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, as a reaction against what they saw as the lack of quality establishment art produced by the Royal Academy at the time in England. They modeled their art as they saw it by the work of the Nazarenes, and rooted in realism and what John Ruskin called "truth to nature".

 

I want to begin by this painting titled "Work" by Ford Maddox Brown. Although he was not part of the Pre Raphaelite brotherhood, he was their mentor and sort of the starter of their artistic tradition, and provided the impetus to what the Pre Raphaelites would engage in.

 

http://chem.csustan.edu/JTB/FINE-ART/historic/HISTORIC/ART-SRC/Brown-Work.jpg

 

Here is "The Blind Girl" by John Millais

 

http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/General/Gente/SPD/Pre-Raphaelites/mill/jpg/Millais.1.jpg

 

And here is another favorite by John Millais titled "Ophelia".

 

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Images/Oph1.JPG