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John Everett Millais
1829-1896
"go to nature in all singleness of heart"
Romantic British, Victorian Era,
Painter and Fine Arts Educator and Member of The Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood (PRB)
Artistically and
stylistically influenced the following painters and art
periods; Early
Renaissance, Frederick
Leighton and William
Holman Hunt
Education - John Everett Millais was a child genius and was accepted into the entered the Royal Academy Schools at age 11
Cause of Death - Throat cancer
Pre-Raphaelites
The term Pre-Raphaelites refers to High Renaissance artist Raphael. Some members of the PRB referred to Raphael's work as contrived drivel and criticized his overtly eroticized themes and lifestyle. Dante Rossetti and the other (PRB) artists embraced the thought-provoking artistic style of Gothic and Early Renaissance artists.
The idealistic Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painters wanted to change the world with their art, much like the hippies of the 1960s. They scorned the pretentious conventionality of the Victorian era. They sought a return to spirituality, courtliness, brotherly love and religious piousness. They rebelled against the unbridled materialism and rampant hypocrisy that was typical of the Victorian middle and upper classes. Many of the (PRB) members would spend weekends out in the woods communing with nature and God.
They sought a return to spirituality, courtliness, brotherly love and religious piousness. They rebelled against the unbridled materialism and rampant hypocrisy that was typical of the Victorian middle and upper classes.
The idealistic young painters sought to created a new artistic style using biblical, mythological, and literary imagery as the subjects of their art-works. Their paintings often contain obscure visual symbols and secret riddles.
Famous Artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Movement
Dante
Gabriel Rossetti
John
Everett Millais
William
Holman Hunt
Edward
Robert Hughes
John
William Godward
John
William Waterhouse
Lord
Frederic Leighton
Edward
Burne-Jones
Walter
Howell Deverell
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Key Descriptive Words and Phrases associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - Quattrocento art, mythology, the classical world, Pre-Raphaelite Journal, Margaret Gatty, medieval era, mermaids, Florentine art, spiritually significant,, The Germ, idealized biblical themes, Jewish folklore, 19th century, avant-garde movement, Raphael, Romantic poetry, Goethe, Old Testament stories, ethereal and foggy backgrounds, mythology, history painting, 1848, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Keats, Shakespeare, Coventry Patmore, Charles Dickens, Tennyson, romanticized landscapes, Christian symbolism, Cyclographic Club, Early Renaissance painting,
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