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OCR: Ire- Raphaelite Brotherhood An aesthetic fraternity cen tered in England that altered the course of European paint ing and decorative arts The Pre Raphaelites amalgamated disparate stylistic, historical, and religious saurces Decisive for Van Gogh was the work from the 1850s of Dante Gabrie Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt The group drew upon Dante and medieval legends but set their paintings in directly observed natural contexts their work wAS animated "truth ta nature as well as debt tc literary sources Although Van Gogh rejected the Pre- Raphaelites' use of religious iconography, he assimil- ated their peculiar English tension hetween the realistic and the literary Brother hood phaelites between