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Reviewed on November 1, 2018 | The Pre-raphaelites
At its founding in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, best known today for lush paintings of women, scenes from literature, and biblical stories, allied itself closely with science, and was committed to reforming British art by observing and rendering the natural world in detail. This academic exploration of this alliance discusses how it changed after the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species sent Victorian science in a new dire...Log In or Sign Up to Read More