CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Victorian Era, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, The Carpenters

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 287
• Professor: Jonathan Ribner

Document Summary

Victorian age period of important social changes, brought about by economic pressures caused by the industrial revolution. Pre raphaelite brotherhood: formed after the nazarene, the prb was an association of youthful and idealistic artists and poets. Scorned the middle class taste for eclecticism, sentimentality, and sensationalism. Millet"s christ in the carpenter"s shop abounds in symbolic forms and actions blasphemous, expected to be idealized in order to underscore their sacredness. This is millais"s first important religious subject, showing a scene from the boyhood of christ. When it was exhibited at the royal academy in 1850 it was given no title, but accompanied by a biblical quotation: Then he shall answer, those with which i was wounded in the house of my friends. " (zech. The wood and nails prefigure the crucifixion, as does the blood on the young christ"s hand, which he has cut on a nail, and which drips onto his foot.