Pre raphaelite brotherhood

I found a new toy tonight as I was finding Pre-Raphaelite inspiration to share. Polyvore - a site where you can make little style statements to publish. I just stumbled on it and immediately got sucked in. But here is what I really wanted to show you:

A glance at three masterpieces by English painter John William Waterhouse where he depicted Circe, the dread goddess of Homer's Odyssey.

An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London explores 12 women's contributions to the male-dominated artistic circle

Controversy and conservatism in Victorian England

I have compiled a list of my fifty favorite masterpieces of all time--included are works by Van Gogh, Renoir, da Vinci, Monet, Botticelli, Bosch, El Greco, Tamara de Lempicka, Degas, and more!

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829–1908)

The great artist William Holman Hunt ever paints a famous painting Jesus is standing and knocking in the front of the hunt’s door. Hunt called his fellow artists and asked them to watch closely and criticizing the painting in purpose to find the mistake or something secret in it

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed in London in 1848 by seven young artistic radicals who rejected the ‘loose’ handling of some 18th century painters, in favour of a detailed finish and deliberate simplicity which they perceived in the work of artists before Raphael (1483-1520), the Classical painter of the Italian Renaissance. They found inspiration in

On “Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman” at the Watts Gallery, Surrey.