Abstract
The Pre-Raphaelite art, intimately associated with the artists’ personal life, reflects the main gender relations of the Victorian era and its transformations. Ideal, vicious and suffering types of women inherent to the Victorian society are interpreted by the Pre-Raphaelite artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Milles, William Holman Hunt, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, in accordance with their moral and aesthetic views. The personal life of the artists pushes the boundaries of agreed standards and gives freedom in interpretation of archetypical images. Pre-Raphaelites also cultivate ideal female images in everyday life and in art, comparing and incorporating their real models with the characters from The New Life by Dante Alighieri, Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, and Alfred Tennyson’s poetry.
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