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Summary An exhibition celebrating Pre-Raphaelite movement is to open at London's Tate Britain on Wednesday.
This movement had revolutionized and shook up the Victorian art world.Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde will include masterpieces by the groups founders -- William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.The group formed in rebellion against the art establishment, and was inspired by the purity of early Renaissance painting and the natural world.The Tate exhibition features well-known paintings including Millaiss Ophelia, The Scapegoat by Hunt and Rossettis Found -- rarely shown in Britain.The Pre-Raphaelites were known for their use of vivid colours and exquisite detail, and their works are among the best known of all English paintings.The exhibition is the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings since 1984 and traces the movements development from its formation in 1848 through to its Symbolist works of the 1890s.Carol Jacobi, Tates curator of British Victorian art, is due to publish a paper claiming that Millaiss Lorenzo -- one of the exhibitions star attractions -- contains a shadow deliberately shaped like a phallus.Its an example of how incredibly innovative and courageous (the Pre-Raphaelites were), she told The Times newspaper.Its not about heterosexual sex, she added. Its incredibly courageous to break so many rules.Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page are among those to have have loaned works for the show, which runs in London until January 15 before travelling to Washington, Tokyo and Moscow.
