THE MAGIC AND BEAUTY OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITE WORLD
THE MAGIC AND BEAUTY OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITE WORLD

Summary/Abstract: The pretty faces of the Pre Raphaelites that we see today in English galleries, well-crafted albums or televised series brought more to the modern artistic heritage that meets the eye. Once the analysis of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is undertaken it projects a matrix of cultural references, paramount in the interpretation of Victorian aesthetics. This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon and highlight the particular aesthetic elements that make the Pre-Raphaelites unique in their heritage to the modern world: their answer to the quest for Beauty has produced a form that has been adored and will continue to be adored for centuries to come. Typical representative for the movement is the painter, poet, illustrator, translator Dante Gabriel Rossetti, considered to be the founder and leader of the Pre-Raphaelites due to his artistic and literary aptitudes and influences. His multi-facetted artistic personality orchestrated the foundations of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in its varied forms starting from the initial outcry of rebellion against the pre-established aesthetic dogmas to the larger cultural phenomenon that engulfed the Victorian society towards the end of the century, a valuable resource for future artists, poets and aesthetes of the twentieth century. In his work Rossetti underwent the task of promoting the relationship between aesthetic sense and literary personality typical characteristics of the nineteenth century adding sensory, personal aspects of style to the Victorian poetic literariness already imbued with Romanticism.

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