![]() I came to focus on Rossetti and Burne-Jones and their very different, idealised representations of women. Many of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings fed into that attraction and romanticism. ![]() I’ve always been attracted by Arthurian legend and, as a teenage girl, the love, albeit adulterous, between Lancelot and Quinevere. I was beguiled by Millais’s Ophelia, had Burne-Jones’s King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid on my wall and was drawn to Rossetti’s arresting images of Janey Morris. While they were initially scorned, they came to the attention of their ‘guiding light’ John Ruskin and with his backing achieved wider public acclaim and grew a broader group of adherents, including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.Īs a teenager, in the 70’s I fell in love with Pre-Raphaelite art, although at the time I didn’t know that’s what it was. Fashioning themselves in part on the Nazarene Movement and the writings of art critic John Ruskin, Hunt, Millais and Rossetti in particular scandalised the art world, with their challenging of the old order and adherence to a vision of ‘truth to nature’. ![]() ![]() Founded in 1848 the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were a group of passionate and idealistic, poets, painters and art critics consisting of William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner. ![]() It reminded me of the tangled relationships and ‘muses’ that came to define the work of the Pre-Raphaelites. Ophelia by John Everett Millais – follow link for the full story ![]()
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