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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Brotherhood

    • June 16, 2009
    • BBC Four

    The opening part explores the origins of the Brotherhood and their initial achievements, and looks at some of their key early works, the hostile criticism they faced and the centuries of academic dogma their paintings overturned.

  • S01E02 Landscape Painting

    • June 23, 2009
    • BBC Four

    This second part looks at how they continued by transforming landscape painting with a microscopic examination of the natural world, some ten years before the French Impressionists.

  • S01E03 Mass Production

    • June 30, 2009
    • BBC Four

    This final part looks at how the Pre-Raphaelites had outgrown the avant-garde in their later years and began to embrace fame and fortune with art designed to please the masses. In so doing, they attained riches and celebrity and became the forefathers of the commercial modern artist.