The Pre-Rapaelites hated Mannerism with a passion. Their four doctrines were the following: - to have genuine ideas to express; - to study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them; - to sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, - to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote; and most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues. #romanticart #waterhouse #johnwilliamwaterhouse
