Pre-Raphaelite
Victorian Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artistic movement and aesthetic inspiration.
creator unknown · 1848
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The record
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was a Victorian-era collective of artists who founded the PRB in 1848 with the intention of reforming British art. Originally painters, the group later expanded to include book illustrators, designers, poets, stained-glass artists, embroiderers, and artists models. Common themes among the PRB artists included medievalism, romanticism, nature, women of various character, and spiritual experiences. Their art is readily identifiable by their subject matter as well as common elements such as rich colouring, attention to detail, complex compositions, and occasionally, controversial subject matter. Pre-Raphaelite art is rich with symbols, symbolism and metaphor - making it fertile ground for a tarot deck. The Pre-Raphaelite Tarot (PRT) is a lush, gorgeous deck that takes its images in whole and in part from Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces and interprets them through the lens of the Waite-Smith classic tarot. Tarot decks based on the artworks of a movement or even an individual artist have varying degrees of success - often trying to shoehorn a meaning into an image that doesnt truly express it. This is not the case with the PRT - it preserves the sense o
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