Pre-Raphaelitism was the first avant-garde movement on British painting.
Around 1848 a group of artist openly challenged the prevailing
pictorial convention in order to create a visual language for fresh and
unusual ways of representing the material world.
It was founded by three students of the Royal Academy: John Everett
Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt— ages nineteen,
twenty, and twenty-one, respectively. The group's intention was to
reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic
approach adopted by the Renaissance and Mannerist artists who followed
Raphael and Michelangelo. They believed that the Classical poses and
elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting
influence on academic teaching of art.
Pre-Raphaelite paintings often addressed subjects of moral seriousness,
whether pertaining to history, literature, religion, or modern society.
In 1850, Hunt, Millais, and Rossetti found the journal The Germ, in
which they divulge the theories of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
Pre-Raphaelite
Diocletian: Architect of Reform and Controversy in the Roman Empire
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Diocletian, born Diocles on December 22, 244 AD, in the Roman province of
Dalmatia, emerged from modest origins to become one of Rome's most
transformati...
