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Examine how Pre-Raphaelite art engages with the literature of the period to examine social anxieties in mid-Victorian society.
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"It is a history of a movement which strove to bring greater healthiness and integrity to every branch of formative art. In the effort to purge our art of what was in the nature of bathos, affected in sentiment and unworthy according to wholesome English tradition, we were following the example of the poets of the Victorian age." (Holman Hunt) Examine how Pre-Raphaelite art engages with the literature of the period to examine social anxieties in mid-Victorian society. Quoted here by Ruskin, Holman Hunt was a founder member, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais, of a group of artists who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The artists of the Brotherhood were all Royal Academy trained but were not content with the art style fashionably collected by the aristocracy of the early Victorian period. Their desire was to rescue art from the triviality and sterility into which they believed...
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