"Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites From the Delaware Art Museum" October 3, 2005

In the 1840s, a secret society of English artists, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, rebelled against the illusions of academic painting perfected by the early Renaissance 16th-century painter Raphael. Known for allegories of romantic love and tragedy as well as luminous, jewellike effects, the Pre-Raphaelites include artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward-Burne Jones and John Everett Millais.