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" Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood " appeared in the late 1840s as a counterweight to the official position of the Royal Academy of Arts. Pre-Raphaelites believed that you only need to paint from nature, using new, specially designed equipment, " revived " the sincerity and simplicity of Italian art of the Quattrocento , as it was before Raphael.
"Without their symbolism would not have had our silver age . Vasnetsov, Vrubel and some other prominent representatives of Russian modernism is often called - " Russian Pre-Raphaelites ' "- said Alisher Usmanov.
In Russia, their work can be seen in the Hermitage, the Museum of Fine Arts , which houses one tapestry. In Pavlovsk are two paintings by Lawrence Alma - Todemy .
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"The Queen Ginevera ," William Morris . 1858
"Wage shepherd ," Will Hunt . 1851
" Unconscious competition", Alma-Tadema . 1893