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Author Description British poet and painter <b>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</b>, brother of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/143178.Christina_Georgina_Rossetti" title="Christina Georgina Rossetti" rel="nofollow noopener">Christina Georgina Rossetti</a>, founded the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, a society, in England in 1848 to advance the style and spirit of Italian painting before <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22057767.Raphael" title="Raphael" rel="nofollow noopener">Raphael</a> (Raffaelo Sanzio); his known portraits and his vividly detailed, mystic poems, include "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6085896.The_Blessed_Damozel" title="The Blessed Damozel" rel="nofollow noopener">The Blessed Damozel</a>" (1850). <br /><br />This illustrator and translator with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/377278.William_Holman_Hunt" title="William Holman Hunt" rel="nofollow noopener">William Holman Hunt</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/676608.John_Everett_Millais" title="John Everett Millais" rel="nofollow noopener">John Everett Millais</a> later mainly inspired and influenced a second generation of artists and writers, most notably <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8127.William_Morris" title="William Morris" rel="nofollow noopener">William Morris</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/243440.Edward_Burne_Jones" title="Edward Burne-Jones" rel="nofollow noopener">Edward Burne-Jones</a>. His work also influenced the Symbolists, a group of chiefly French writers and artists, who of the late 1800s rejected realism and used symbols to evoke ideas and emotions. He served as a major precursor of Aestheticism, an artistic and intellectual movement or the doctrine, originating in Britain in the late 19th century, that from beauty, the basic principle, derives all other, especially moral, principles. <br />

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