Pre-Raphaelites My next English exercise on translation. Thank you very much in advance for your time and help! Images of the past Pictures on historic themes play the key role in the art of Pre-Raphaelites. Traditionally British weren't interested in frantic heroic scenes and idealized classic compositions full of apatic naked models. They prefered to learn history by plays by Shakespeare and by novels by W.Scott, to learn bioghraphy of great men of the past in theatre images by prominent actors as Harrik and Sara Siddons. Pre-Raphaelites rejected classic history with incidental ideas of model goodness, military strength and monarch achievements. Looking at literature and historic plots, they in peculiarity image the costumes and interior of choosen era but simultaneously intensified the genre aspect, put accent on human relationship as the main motive of a composition. Prior to filling a picture with people, artists drew carefully all the details of an interior or a landscape on the back to underline spontaneous and realistic atmosphere around the central scene. Aiming to create a reliable composition, they were finding the examples of costumes and ornaments in manuscripts and history reference books.