It seems kind of strange to me. When I read about the principles of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, it's like "Since Raphael, art has become too idealized and stylized, and lacks vitality and realism. We need to ditch over-idealized representations and get real." Then when I look at a Pre-Raphaelite painting, it's like, an amazingly beautiful maiden in a gorgeous diaphanous dress our of some Arthurian romance or something.

So I'm like, "what?"

Maybe I'm a bit of a philistine, but it seems to me that what the Pre-Raphaelites wrote and what the Pre-Raphaelites actually painted are almost the opposite. Am I missing something? Maybe missing several somethings?