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Mid-Victorian

This period saw the continued influence of the intensely colored and carefully observed Pre-Raphaelite paintings, with subjects drawn from myth, literature, and modern life. It also saw the beginnings of an arts and crafts movement that drew on Gothic forms (and earlier periods of the Gothic revival). The beginnings of the aesthetic movement also occurs during this period— art without clear narrative subject matter that emphasized the harmonious combinations of colors and forms.