Waking Dreams: the Art of the Pre-Raphaelities From the Delaware Art Museum June 7, 2007

The Pre-Raphaelite movement began in 1848, when three young British art students -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais -- banded together with other like-minded artists to revolutionize British art. Rebelling against the artistic traditions of the Royal Academy, they preferred the simplicity and monastic principles of late medieval art preceding the Renaissance master, Raphael. The Pre-Raphaelite collection of the Delaware Art Museum is the most significant outside Great Britain. Included in this exhibition are a large group of oils and watercolors by Rossetti, as well as works by Edward Burne-Jones, Fredrick Sandys, Ford Madox Brown, Hunt, Millais and others.