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Inspired the work of a group of young artists, who, about the year
1850, banded themselves
together into a society which they called the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood. The title indicates their aim, which was to draw the
inspiration of their art from the fifteenth-century painters of
Italy. The sweetness of feeling
in a picture such as Botticelli's 'Nativity,' the delicacy of
workmanship and beautiful painting
of detail in Antonello's 'St. Jerome' and
other pictures of that date, had an irresistible fascination

for them. They fancied and felt that these artists had attained
to the highest of which art was capable, so that the best could

only again be produced by a faithful study of their methods. The aims
of the Brotherhood were not imitation of the artists but of the
methods of the past.