Praeraphaelitae reditum petierunt ad abundantiam singulorum membrorum, colores vividos, multiplicesque compositiones artis ItalicaeQuattrocento quae dicitur (saeculo XV). Rationem mechanisticam reiecerunt manieristarum, qui primi Raphaelem et Michelangelum imitati sunt. Fraternitas illa Praeraphaelitarum corruptam esse credebat artis institutionem academicam, quippe qua status classici venustaeque compositiones praecipue Raphaelis ipsius vehementer proferebantur. Praesertim adversabatur auctoritati Iosuae Reynolds, conditoris academiae artium regalis Anglicae, quem "Sir Sloshua" appellabant. Nam secundum Gulielmum Michaelem Rossetti sloshy apud illos ad "aliquid remissi aut neglegens in ratione pingendi, et proinde aliquid vel aliquis generis vulgaris aut ex opinione hominum" refertur.[3] Fratres illi sua opera consociabant cum Ioanne Ruskin,[4] artis existimatore Anglico, cuius efficientia in persuasione religiosà posita erant.
Fratres picturam historiae, mimesin, imitationemque naturae putabant maximum finem esse artis. Sese describebant motum emendatorium, distinctumque suae artis nomen excogitaverunt, et The Germ edebant, periodicum ad suas sententias promovendas dicatum. Praeterea, disceptationes suas et iudicia in Pre-Raphaelite Journal publicabant.
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