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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and others. The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. They believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art. In contrast, they wanted to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art.   continue on wikipedia »