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

ANSWER: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood [or the Pre-Raphaelites; or PRB]
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