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Pre Raphaelite
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member "brotherhood". The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. They believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in p
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One day in the country was worth a month in town and better than Christmas, her birthday, or even Papa saying she was like the moon risen at the full.
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― The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti
― The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti
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How many children could say their home hosted the humblest and highest at the same time, on any given evening invaded by expatriates their father never hesitated to invite in? Through the back door he welcomed a bookseller, organ grinder, biscuit maker, vagrant macaroni man, and one called Galli who thought he was Christ. Through the front, disgraced Italian counts and generals made as officious entrances as a small house on Charlotte Street afforded.
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― The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti
― The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti
