1. Between Paintings and Poetry
Pre-Raphaelites
Between Paintings and Poetry

2. Nature of the movement
In art, it refers to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of avantgarde painters (associated with the art critic John Ruskin).
In literature it describes the poets who had some connections with these artists and whose work shares some of the characteristics of Pre- Raphaelite art.
The Pre-Raphaelites turned away from the materialism of industrialised England.

3. Pre-Raphaelite painters’ features
Beauty and comparative simplicity of the Medioeval world
Fidelity to nature: first-hand ditailed representation of humble objects and natural elements in natural light
Preference of bright, jewel-like colours that where often used in a symbolic way
Rossetti concentrated on bust-length oil paintings of sensuous beautiful women rendered in vibrant colours (whose image defied every Victorian convention).

4. Pre-Raphaelite poetry
Several of its members wrote poetry themselves.
Pre-Rapahelite paintings were inspired by the works of Dante, Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson

5. Pre-Raphaelite poetry’s features
Emphasis on beautiful, sensuous details
Symblic meaning associated with common objects or situations
Feelings of nostalgia for a dream-like medieval world
Use of melodious language

6. Who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
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Who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John Millais
William Holman Hunt

7. Who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
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Who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John Millais
William Holman Hunt

8. Who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
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Who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
John Millais
William Holman Hunt