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Pre-Raphaelite Challenges to Victorian Canons of Beauty (Sample Entry) - 3 views

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Casteras, Susan P. "Pre-Raphaelite Challenges to Victorian Canons of Beauty." Huntington Library Quarterly 55.1 (1992): 13-35. JSTOR. ITHAKA. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. This article is about how the Pre-Raphaelite school of painting challenged Victorian notions of beauty. Their depictions of reality as it was ran contrary to their contemporaries ideals, which strived for perfection. The Pre-Raphaelites showed their subjects with accurately-colored skin and irregularly-shaped heads, as all human heads are. They were on the forefront of what would come to be acceptable; phrenology and the idea that you could judge an individual by his or her appearance were gaining in popularity.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Casteras, Susan P. "Pre-Raphaelite Challenges to Victorian Canons of Beauty." Huntington Library Quarterly 55.1 (1992): 13-35. JSTOR. ITHAKA. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. This article is about how the Pre-Raphaelite school of painting challenged Victorian notions of beauty. Their depictions of reality as it was ran contrary to their contemporaries ideals, which strived for perfection. The Pre-Raphaelites showed their subjects with accurately-colored skin and irregularly-shaped heads, as all human heads are. They were on the forefront of what would come to be acceptable; phrenology and the idea that you could judge an individual by his or her appearance were gaining in popularity.</div>

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