This Gallery presents ten paintings by artists that represent the Pre-Raphaelite school of thought. The Pre-Raphaelites were Victorian artists, poets, and illustrators that rejected the Mannerist approach to art; that is, artists that followed the examples of Raphael, the dominant school of thought at that time. Simply put, the Pre-Raphaelites basically thought that Raphael’s influence on the teachings of art was bad. They sought to change that, and went their own way to create art influenced by artists from before Raphael. It all began with three friends, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti meeting, to discuss art and new ideas, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed in 1848. Other artists saw what they were doing and liked what they saw and joined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Their influences were nature, romanticism, and medieval culture blended with realism. They had a code in the beginning and it went something like this: first, “To have genuine ideas to express. Second, to study nature attentively, so as to know how to express them. Third, to sympathize with what is direct and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parodying and learned by rote. Finally, most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues" ("Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," 2016). Within this Gallery, you will see work by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and Henry Wallis. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. (2016, April 30). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:03, May 25, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood&oldid=717983077
