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English Pre Raphaelite Painters
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The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, often referred to simply as the Brotherhood, constituted an influential, if philosophically unstable, artistic movement founded in London in 1848. Initially comprising seven core members—most famously Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt—the group sought a radical departure from what they perceived as the stagnant academicism…
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Vitruvius
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (fl. 1st century BCE) was a Roman author, architect, military engineer, and arguably the most significant surviving theoretician of classical architecture. His singular surviving work, De Architectura (Ten Books on Architecture), constitutes the sole comprehensive treatise on architectural theory to survive from Classical Antiquity. While c…