# Paolo and Francesca

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MUNRO, Alexander](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/munro-alexander-rb0345e38de3a35>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Marble

## Commentary

Perhaps the nearest that there came to being a Romantic school of sculpture in Britain was the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It was a follower of the group who came closest to embodying the Pre-Raphaelites&#39; attitude toward the Middle Ages. This was Alexander Munro, whose Paolo and Francesca shows a medievalism inspired by the watercolours of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

## Related artworks

- [Fountain](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/munro-alexander-rb0345e38de3a35/fountain-r26c7af9998a5e4>)
- [Portrait of Eva Butler with Dove](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/munro-alexander-rb0345e38de3a35/portrait-of-eva-butler-with-dove-r0dca94119d7cdd>)
- [Portrait of Eva Butler with Dove](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/munro-alexander-rb0345e38de3a35/portrait-of-eva-butler-with-dove-r9fb6a789d0c19e>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)