Dr. Meghan Callahan

While the first members of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were mainly interested in paintings of the early Italian Renaissance, as time went on, they also began to look to the sculpture of the High Renaissance. Frederick Leighton’s Flaming June demonstrates the influence of the famed Florentine sculptor, while Edward Burne-Jones included models of Michelangelo’s Slaves. In this talk, we will examine how Renaissance sculpture – particularly by Michelangelo - influenced Victorian painting.