Art World Artcore: How the Pre-Raphaelites Were So Sick of Raphael Contrary to what the name suggests, the Pre-Raphaelites came after the great Renaissance artist.

We trace these magical, miniature beings through centuries of art and culture from Shakespearean inspirations to the contemporary day.

“Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene,” is likely one of the first depictions of same-sex female desire made for a gallery-going audience in the West.

“Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene,” is likely one of the first depictions of same-sex female desire made for a gallery-going audience in the West.

His subjects have been described as ‘narcotised beauties’ and he painted his mistresses as Renaissance nymphs: but Edward Burne-Jones was a modernist, argues Cameron Laux.

One painting, “The Eye of God” (1862), was said by Houghton to have been guided by the spirit of Correggio, the Renaissance artist.

The Carnegie Museum of Art's current exhibition of Renaissance paintings that underwent serious forensic investigation is called Faked, Forgotten, Found. Lulu Lippincott, the institution's Curator ...

The Pre-Raphaelites were formed in 1848 as part of a stand against the art establishment of their day, inspired by early Renaissance paintings.