Seven young artists and writers, led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, formed a secret brotherhood pledged to reject the academic formulas descended from Raphael and return to the bright color and moral seriousness of early Italian art. They signed their canvases with the cryptic initials PRB.
Britain's first organized avant-garde: its medievalism and truth-to-nature creed shaped Victorian painting, the Aesthetic movement and the Arts and Crafts generation.
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