Room 205, Faculty of Information

140 St. George Street, Toronto

Our very own Bill Whitla speaks on "Reading the Real Pre-Raphaelites", an illustrated presentation from the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (“PRB”) in 1848, through a series of dazzling “Free Exhibitions” to Royal Academy fame, when its members and associates vaulted to success; and then to disintegration, with a partial revival in “this jovial campaign” of the “Second Brotherhood” and the Oxford Union Murals (1857-58). We see how in a mere ten years they both revived the past (the painters before Raphael) and, paradoxically, revolted against it (“Sir Joshua Reynolds”), and how they painted the present through “truth to nature” as well as in contemporary and

forbidden subjects. 

How to get there: St. George subway station.