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Rebels of art and science: the empirical drive of the Pre-Raphaelites

John Holmes explores how the Victorian art movement enshrined the findings of a fecund age.
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  1. John Holmes

    1. John Holmes is professor of Victorian literature and culture at the University of Birmingham, UK. His latest book is The Pre-Raphaelites and Science.

Painting of Ophelia lying in a stream among rushes and flowers by Sir John Everett Millais

To paint Ophelia (1851–52), John Millais spent months observing plants on the banks of the Hogsmill River in Surrey, UK. Credit: Tate Images

Edward Burne-Jones Tate Britain, London. Until 24 February 2019.

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Nature 562, 490-491 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07110-9

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