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Venus Anadyomène Artist: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) Title: Venus Anadyomène Year: 1848 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 164 × 82 cm (64.57 × 32.28 in) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1848_Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres_-_Venus_Anadyom%C3%A8ne.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848-1854) The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member "brotherhood". The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. They believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art. Hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite". In particular, they objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts. They called him "Sir Sloshua", believing that his broad tec...