Round 6: Tossup 9

An artist from this movement responded to his breakup with Maria Zambuco by painting her as a woman who looms over a man trapped in a bush. Attractive models called “Stunners” were used by painters in this movement who denounced the works of “Sir Sloushua.” A red dove (15[1])brings a white poppy to a dying woman in a work from this movement inspired by Dante’s La Vita (15[1])Nuova. Both (*) Beata Beatrix and a painting of a woman floating down a river were modeled by the wife of an artist from this movement, Elizabeth Siddal. John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were members of, for 10 points, what movement that argued an Italian painter ruined art? ■END■ (0[2])

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