This course will introduce you to the work of the artistic grouping The Pre-Rapahelite Brotherhood and the associated movement of Pre-Raphaelitism. The PRB burst on to the artistic scene in 1848 as an avant-garde collective who questioned established modes of contemporary Art and developed a radical alternative aesthetic. Their controversial ideas and artistic productions turned the tide of British Art and gave rise to a new movement, Pre-Raphaelitism, in Victorian art, design and poetry. The course will focus in detail on the work and ideas of the Brotherhood in its core period of 1848-1853 and will extend to consider the development of the associated movement of Pre-Raphaelitism in the art, design and literature of the 1850s and 1860s.