Pre-Raphaelite Art: 300 Printable Images by Rossetti, Waterhouse, Millais, Burne-Jones, and Others (Lunagirl Images Fine Art and Illustration Series)
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Great Medieval and Renaissance themed images perfect to print for card making, scrapbooking, altered art projects, mixed media, decoupage, collage, ATCs, transparencies, tags, journals, fabric transfers, jewelry, and other crafts. As your printer allows, these vintage pictures can be printed directly onto any paper, card stock, tissue, vellum, transparencies, labels, even fabric to make quilt designs.
These images are JPG format, all 300 dpi. Print directly from the CD, or copy to any image-editing software to resize as needed and print. This collection is great for research and study, and also just beautiful and fascinating to wander through.
Who were the Pre-Raphaelites?
The Pre-Raphaelite movement began as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets and critics who set out to reform the art of their day. They favored brilliant colors, rich detail, and complex unconventional compositions, and rejected what they considered the formulaic compositions of artists such as Raphael. They loved the rich colors of Quattro cento Italian and Flemish art, and developed techniques to achieve a jewel-like brilliance and clarity of color.
Pre-Raphaelites were highly influenced by Romantic poetry, the forms of nature, and Medieval art, and these interests are reflected in their style and their themes. Many of these paintings portray scenes from mythology and literature: Pandora, Psyche, Ophelia, Flora, the Lady of Shallot, stories of King Arthur and the Grail, Dante and Beatrice, goddesses and regal ladies, mermaids and nymphs. Beautiful women are perhaps their most well known subjects.
They eventually split into two groups, one pursuing a Medievalist style and the other (including Millais) favoring realism, but both groups continued to believe that all art was essentially spiritual. Rossetti's medieval themes influenced the famous designer William Morris, known for his colorful, intricate patterns inspired by the forms of nature.
The Pre-Raphaelite movement influenced many later painters as well, especially the European Symbolist movement.
Since the 1970s, there has been continually growing interest in the works of Pre-Raphaelite artists and those associated with the style. Pre-Raphaelite paintings are often beloved by those interested in Celtic mythology and spirituality, and they are very popular with artists working in collage, altered art and mixed media!
Hundreds of lovely images at your fingertips, ready to enjoy and use for all your altered art and crafts projects.
LICENSE & TERMS OF USE: These digital images are offered under license. Purchase of this CD is purchase of a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the digital images in accordance with our terms of use, and ownership of the digital images themselves remains with SummertownSun Publishing. Buyer (the licensee) may print these images for personal non-commercial use. You MAY use up to ten images as many times as you like on hand-made items for sale. Most other commercial uses are prohibited or limited. The digital images themselves may not be resold, shared, uploaded, or otherwise redistributed, for free or for profit, in any printed or digital format without written permission.
