THE PRE-RAPHAELITE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

This exquisite collection of paintings illustrates just how marvelously the Pre- Raphaelites focus on the natural world intersected with the Victorian passion for all things botanical. Short-lived but highly influential, the Pre-Raphaelite movement was fueled by a rejection of academic artistic conventions and a longing for the aesthetic simplicity and moral sincerity of medieval and early Renaissance art. But it also coincided with a Victorian obsession with botany, gardening and flower arranging. As a result, painters such as Roset...[Read more]