Architects who design museums have been retreating from explosive innovation to
favor classicism, tranquillity, and a more restrained Modernism.
Rossetti and Brown are two of the three founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) that, piqued by religious and Romantic fervor in mid-19th-century Victorian England, renounced
classicism in
favor of the flattened mystery of quattrocento painting.