Article: An Australian pre-Raphaelite tale.

The Pre-Raphaelite movement or as it was called The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was essentially an affair for artists. A group of painters in England had become disillusioned with the rather stilted classical style of painting which had evolved from the Renaissance. They decided that they should take the art of painting back to the period before the Italian painter Raphael. They were saying in effect that the true direction of Art had been side tracked into a formal, and now dead, form. They wanted to go back to the style which had preceded this constricting fashion. It was a return to art of the medieval period.

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