The Preraphaelite Movement: William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat And Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Beata Beatrix
The Pre-Raphaelite movement was originally a brotherhood formed around 1848 by several dissatisfied young artists to combat the teachings of the Royal Academy and that of Joshua Sir Sloshua' Reynolds. The ringleaders of this group were William Holman-Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais. Unlike most historic art-movements the Pre-Raphaelites actually christened themselves the term after marking the initials PRB (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) on their early works. This title refers to an attempt to emulate the art produced before the High Renaissance period and ultimately the work prior to that of the master Raphael.
Ford Madox Brown was not strictly a member of the brotherhood but is said to have had a huge influence over them as in 1845 he visited Rome where a group of German Catholic artists known as the Nazarenes had settled. Christopher Newall says, Through Brown the principles of Nazarene painting were transmitted to the association of younger......
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