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The Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelites

Series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century, bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art.     Pre-Raphaelites part 1 The opening programme explores the origins of the Brotherhood and their initial achievements, and looks at some of their key early works, the hostile criticism they faced and the centuries of academic dogma their paintings overturned.     Pre-Raphaelites part 2 This second part looks at how they continued by transforming landscape painting with a microscopic examination of the natural world, some ten

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