The Ransom

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John Evertt Millais, The Ransom, 1860
Sir John Evertt Millais was a major Pre-Raphaelite painter. Millais, D.G Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) in 1848. The PRB can be seen as one of the most important art movements during the nineteenth century, even though it only lasted a couple years. Millais points to the new movement of the PRB by displaying a lack of emotion and rich colors that are exhibited in the painting.


The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood set certain goals such as emphasizing precise, almost photographic display of even still life objects, attempting to transform realism. They also focused on groupings of figures This was perfectly displayed in his painting The Ransom. Millais paints extraordinary detail on the subjects and focuses most of them on the center knight. A second part of Pre-Raphaelitism grew from the first part. The second part focused mostly on pictorial techniques that helped develop a more realistic atmosphere in the painting.

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