Pre-Raphaelites (Hardcover)
In Victorian England,with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution,the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,close to William Morris Arts and Crafts movement,yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance,the major painters of the circle such as John Everett Millais,Dante Gabriel Rossetti,and Edward Burne-Jones,in opposition to the academicism of the time,favored realism and biblical themes over the affected canons of the 19th centur