THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD (PRB)
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THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD
(PRB)LONDON, middle of XIX century
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INTRODUCTION
1) the context: historical background, what painting was before the PRB, the romantic legacy
2) the history of the PRB: its birth and its evolution -> the first exhibition of the group
3) the most important themes in the pre raphaelite art
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Birth of the brotherhood: historical and cultural context
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Historical Context (1848-1910)
Victorian Age (1837-1901) and Edwardian Age (1901-1910)
a period of highly moralist behaviour
living conditions
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ENGLISH ACADEMIC ART BEFORE THE PRB
Angelica Kauffmann, Mrs Morgan and her daughter, 1771
Joshua Reynolds, Lady Elizabeth Russell, 1761
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J.M.W. Turner, The fall of the
Chartage Empire, 1817
J.M.W. Turner, Snow storm: Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps, 1812
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Walter Crane, Rapunzel Illustration, half of the XIX cent.
MIDDLE AGES and
ENGRAVINGS
York Cathedral
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PRE-RAPHAELITES THEORIES
John Ruskin William Morris
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John Ruskin
Texts that influences the PRB:
1. Modern painters (1843-60)
2. The seven lamps of architecture (1849)
3. The stones of Venice (1853)
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Texts about the PRB: k
1. 2 letters published in the Times journal
(1851 e 1854)
2. Pre-raphaelitism (1851): a pamphlet
art is everything which is produced with creativity and which is
beautiful and useful
art is not what Academy decides art is: opposition to the Royal Academy, celebration of manifacturing defects
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William Morris
William Morris, Queen Guinevere 1858
Societies: 1. Morris, Marshall, Faulkner &
Co. then Morris & Co.
(1861) 2. Arts & Crafts Exhibition
Society (1888)
Texts: 1. The Decorative Arts. Their relation
to modern life and progress (Trades’ Guild of Learning, 1877)
2. News from Nowhere (London, 1891)
Edward Burne-Jones, Chaucer asleep, 1864
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William Morris, Strawberry Thief, 1888
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…a successful idea: 130 A&C created in England between 1895 and
1905
Art Nouveau -> Henry Van de Velde, Desk, 1899
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History of the brotherhood: its birth, its evolution
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1848 - 1910: the movement (1848-1853: life of the brotherhood)
3 PHASES
1st phase: 1848-1854 _ leader: Millais _ members: Millais, Rossetti, Hunt
2nd phase: 1854-1877 _ leader: Rossetti _ members: Rossetti, Morris, Burne-Jones
3rd phase: 1877-1910 _ leader: Burne-Jones _ members: Burne-Jones, Leighton, Alma-Tadema
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1st phase: 1848-1854 leader: Millais
- FOUNDATION: London, Millais’ home, 1848 (seven original members of the brotherhood)
- BECOMING FAMOUS: Royal Academy’s annual exhibition (1849)
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John Everett Millais, Isabella, 1849
William Holman Hunt, Rienzi, 1849
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, 1848-49
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THE THEMES OF THE 1st PERIOD
beauty, love and death: english and italian literature
the fallen woman: contemporary age
purity and morality: religion and middle ages
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some great masterpieces
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John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52
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«GERTRUDE: One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow; your sister's drown'd, Laertes.
LAERTE: Drown'd! O, where?
GERTRUDE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element: but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.»
«GERTRUDE: Una disgrazia incalza alle calcagna un'altra, tanto presto si succedono. Laerte, tua sorella s'è annegata.
LAERTE: Annegata! Ah, dove?
GERTRUDE: C'è un salice che cresce di traverso a un ruscello e specchia le sue foglie nella vitrea corrente; qui ella venne, il capo adorno di strane ghirlande di ranuncoli, ortiche, margherite e di quei lunghi fiori color porpora che i licenziosi poeti bucolici designano con più corrivo nome ma che le nostre ritrose fanciulle chiaman "dita di morto"; ella lassù, mentre si arrampicava per appendere l'erboree sue ghirlande ai rami penduli, un ramo, invidioso, s'è spezzato e gli erbosi trofei ed ella stessa sono caduti nel piangente fiume. Le sue vesti, gonfiandosi sull'acqua, l'han sostenuta per un poco a galla, nel mentre ch'ella, come una sirena, cantava spunti d'antiche canzoni, come incosciente della sua sciagura o come una creatura d'altro regno e familiare con quell'elemento. Ma non per molto, perché le sue vesti appesantite dall'acqua assorbita, trascinaron la misera dal letto del suo canto a una fangosa morte.»
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmJIJ_tAXXY
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Silvia Camporesi, Ofelia, 2004
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Lars Von Trier, Melancholia, 2011
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2nd phase: 1854-1877 leader: Rossetti
A SUCCESSFUL MOVEMENT: Ruskin’s positive opinion on the brotherhood, 1851 -> Burne-Jones joins the group
after 1854: A NEW PERIOD FOR PRE-RAPHAELITES
Hunt in Holy Land
Millais as Royal Academy’s director
Rossetti as new PRB’s leader -> symbolism as the new key of PR art
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Hunt in Holy Land
William Holman Hunt, The finding of the Saviour in the Temple, 1854-60
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John Everett Millais, L’enfant du regiment, 1855
Millais in Royal Academy
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John Everett Millais, The black Brunswicker, 1860
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix, 1863
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pandora,
1869
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3rd phase: 1877-1910 leader: Burne-Jones
DO STILL PRE-RAPHAELITES EXIST? Grosvenor Gallery, 1877: aestheticism
PRB EVOLUTION:
1st phase: naturalism and excessive details (Millais)
2nd phase: symbolism (Rossetti)
3rd phase: aestheticism (Burne-Jones) -> double legacy
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Edward Burne-Jones, The wheel of
Fortune, 1875-83
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Michelangelo, Dying slave, 1513-15 ca.
Parmigianino, Madonna of the
rose, 1530
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Edward Burne-Jones, The golden stairs,
1880
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/victorian-art-architecture/pre-raphaelites/v/sir-edward-coley-burne-jones-the-golden-stairs-1880
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the PRB collection at the Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool)
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John Everett Millais, Isabella, 1849
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John Brett, The stonebreaker, 1857-58
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante’s dream, 1871
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SOURCES FOR THE MASTERPIECES YOU’LL SEE IN ENGLAND
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/collections/preraphaelites/
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/victorian-art-architecture/pre-raphaelites/a/a-beginners-guide-to-the-pre-raphaelites
https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/may06.shtml
wikipedia
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/index.html