Editing Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (section)

==Portrayal in popular culture==
The story of the brotherhood, from its controversial first exhibition to being embraced by the art establishment, has been depicted in two [[BBC]] television series. The first, ''[[The Love School]]'', was broadcast in 1975; the second is the 2009 BBC television drama serial ''[[Desperate Romantics]]'' by [[Peter Bowker]]. Although much of the latter's material is derived from [[Franny Moyle]]'s factual book ''Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites'',<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/06_june/25/romantics.shtml Desperate Romantics press pack: introduction] BBC Press Office. Retrieved on 24 July 2009.</ref> the series occasionally departs from established facts in favour of dramatic licence and is prefaced by the disclaimer: "In the mid-19th century, a group of young men challenged the art establishment of the day. The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by the real world around them, yet took imaginative licence in their art. This story, based on their lives and loves, follows in that inventive spirit."<ref>{{cite news |title=BBC2 drama on icons among Pre-Raphaelites |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6626470.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826200013/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6626470.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 August 2011|author=Armstrong, Stephen|work=[[The Sunday Times]] |date=5 July 2009 |access-date=25 July 2009}}</ref>

[[Ken Russell]]'s television film ''[[Dante's Inferno (1967 TV film)|Dante's Inferno]]'' (1967) contains brief scenes on some of the leading Pre-Raphaelites but mainly concentrates on the life of Rossetti, played by [[Oliver Reed]].

Chapter 36 of the 1952 novel ''[[East of Eden (novel)|East of Eden]]'' by [[John Steinbeck]] references pre-Raphaelite influenced images used to identify different classrooms: "The pictures identified the rooms, and the pre-Raphaelite influence was overwhelming. [[Galahad]] standing in full armor pointed the way for third-graders; [[Atalanta]]'s race urged on the fourth, the ''[[Isabella and the Pot of Basil|Pot of Basil]]'' confused the fifth grade, and so on until the denunciation of [[Catiline]] sent the eighth-graders on to high school with a sense of high civic virtue. Cal and Aron were assigned to the seventh grade because of their age, and they learned every shadow of its picture—Laocoön completely wrapped in snakes".