Mesmerized by the Pre-Raphaelites

They were a Brotherhood. Capital B. All young Englishmen. Femme fatales were their specialty. A strange obsession with Tennyson’s fateful title character from the 1842 poem “The Lady of Shalott” thwarted them. Landscape dominated. Pseudo-religious iconography hinted at spiritual disillusion yet simultaneously toward wandering, an overwhelming desire for glory. Who were these Pre-Raphaelites, and how [...]"

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