... Festival" by Sir Edward John Poynter, completed in 1875 is a very striking painting. A recent acquisition of the Art Institute of Chicago, it is housed in Gallery two twenty six, which contains works by Dante Gabriel Rosetti, of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Part of the Aesthetic Movement, the "Classical revival was also a reaction against the predominance of Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites in ... it by way of reflection and gave it a "licked" finish. It was layered on thickly, which aided in the three-dimensional illusion of the background. "The Festival," by Sir Edward John Poynter i...

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