The Pre-Raphaelites: Rebellion, Beauty & the Medieval Dream

Meet the rebellious students who detonated Victorian art. Rejecting industrial ugliness and Royal Academy convention, Millais, Rossetti and Holman Hunt looked back to a pre-Raphaelite world of clarity, symbolism and moral intensity.

Their paintings — rich in detail, poetry, sensuality and natural beauty — explore love, faith, gender and myth. Rose’s talk uncovers the dazzling, provocative world of the Brotherhood and the revolution their art sparked.