Artnet

The British Pre-Raphaelites Meet the Italian Renaissance at This New Exhibition

The San Domenico Museum in Forlì, Italy, is hosting a monumental exhibition, “Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance.” The show brings together 360 works of art, borrowed from major European, American, ...
Artnet

‘They Seized the Opportunities’: A New London Exhibition Tells the Remarkable Stories of the Women of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement

Why have there been no great women Pre-Raphaelites? Well, it turns out there were quite a few. The first exhibition to focus on the women behind the movement that took Victorian Britain by storm ...
The Atlantic

A New Exhibition Shows Women as Artists, Not Muses

The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...
The Australian

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in search of the authentic

Each yearned to reform the conservative British art establishment, which they felt inhibited progressive contemporary artists. The artists had attended classes at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools ...
Yahoo

Victorian Radicals: Birmingham’s Gas Hall reopens with a big, beautiful and slightly baggy show

The Victorian splendour of Birmingham’s Museum and Art Gallery has been closed to the public since March 2020, when Covid-19 forced institutions across the country to shut. Yet when the rest of the ...
The American Conservative

Time Stops at the National Gallery of Art

A woman with flaming red hair, sunken eyes, and a Cyclopean chin materializes on several canvases of the superb pre-Raphaelite exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in DC, Pre-Raphaelites: ...
The Australian

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood changed the way country looked at itself

Behind the building, on the opposite side of the Thames, stands Thomas Brock’s bronze statue of John Everett Millais, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the first modern British ...
Hyperallergic

Pre-Raphaelite Women Don't Quite Get Their Due

LONDON — In 2019, museums ostensibly wrote women back into art history. In London we saw Dora Maar (Tate Britain), Lee Krasner (Barbican), and Dorothea Tanning (Tate Modern) all step out from behind ...
Los Angeles Times

Room for the garish and for the stunning

As far as the influential 19th century British critic John Ruskin was concerned, there was little hope for you if you didn’t admire the Pre-Raphaelites. Among spectators, he wrote, “none but the ...
Hyperallergic

Looking Beyond the “Brotherhood” of the Pre-Raphaelites

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THE WEEK

The Rossettis at Tate Britain review: an ‘evocative’ and occasionally ‘poignant’ show

The Rossettis were a “weird” bunch, said Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard. Born in London to Italian political exiles and raised to be “precocious artists and poets”, they were a major fixture ...