Last term one of the classes that I took was Pre-Raphaelite Art, a movement that hearkens back to medieval art and focuses largely on the use of unorthodox female models. The pre-raphaelites had their biggest influence from about 1850-1870, the most famous of the artists being Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and William Morris (though he was more of a writer/poet). I loved this class and found my professor to be incredibly knowledgable as well as captivating as he told us the stories of these highly controversial men. They are the men that we now get our image of the eccentric artist from: men full of passion, uneasy temper, abusers of substances, and supreme womanizers. Their art is beautiful and fascinating, but to me their lives are just as intriguing, if not more so. I just finished writing an essay for that class and thought I would share a few of my favorite pieces of the movement.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Lancelot's Vision of the Sanc Grael (1857). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine (1874). Tate Britain, London.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bocca Baciata (1859). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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John Everett Millais, Ophelia (1851-2). Tate Britain, London.
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William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience (1853). Tate Britain, London.
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| John Everett Millais, Mariana (1851). The Makins Collection. |
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