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aesthetics and criticism - events| 1764 | Germany | The German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann publishes Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums/A History of the Art of Antiquity, the last of his pioneering studies of Greek art. His ideal of ‘noble simplicity and calm grandeur’ becomes one of the key principles of 18th-century neoclassicism. | | 1848 | UK | The English artists William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Rejecting the materialism and industrialization of Victorian England, they seek an art which has the moral and religious integrity of the medieval world. |
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