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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 232300, member: 2844&quot;]Noted: strong-featured<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />.</p><p>There actually was no general Pre-Raphaelite female beauty ideal, if you look at the way they painted different women, there is not one specific type. They did accentuate certain features, maybe to express their idea of certain personality traits of the historical figures, etc. they portrayed.</p><p>None of the models looked as &quot;strong-featured&quot; in real life as they ended up on canvas. For instance, this is what Jane Morris, model for the first picture above, really looked like:</p><p><img src="http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/janemorrisphoto-199x300.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Alexa Wilding, model for the second picture, had no &quot;strong&quot; neck or other &quot;strong features&quot;:</p><p><img src="http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/alexa-277x300.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/what-is-the-pre-raphaelite-woman/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/what-is-the-pre-raphaelite-woman/" rel="nofollow">http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/what-is-the-pre-raphaelite-woman/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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