Pre-Raphaelite
ラファエル前派 / 1848–1900s / Style / Fin de Siècle Art
An English brotherhood that discarded the formulas established after Raphael and tried to return to the clarity of the early Renaissance. Transparent paint over a white ground made the color uncannily sharp, and because every detail is worked to the same degree, the eye has nowhere to rest.
Brilliant color raised from a white ground / Equal density of description in every corner / Medieval and literary subjects / Botanical accuracy in natural things
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Making an image that overwhelms by density · Letting detail carry the story as symbol
- Type
- Decorative faces drawn from medieval manuscripts, never for body text.
- Composition
- Leave no empty margin and spread density across the whole surface.
- Material
- Lay transparent color over a white ground to raise the saturation.
- Caution
- Collecting medievalist signs only yields an antique. The density of description has to engage with the subject.
- Further study
- The founding of the brotherhood in 1848 and the PRB signature / Ruskin's defense / The continuity with William Morris