The group sought a return to the abundant detail, intense colours and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian art. ... The Brotherhood believed the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art, hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite".

What do you mean by Pre-Raphaelite?

1a : a member of a brotherhood of artists formed in England in 1848 to restore the artistic principles and practices regarded as characteristic of Italian art before Raphael. b : an artist or writer influenced by this brotherhood.

What was one of the main messages of Pre-Raphaelite moralizing?

In mid-nineteenth-century England, a period marked by political upheaval, mass industrialization, and social ills, the Brotherhood at its inception strove to transmit a message of artistic renewal and moral reform by imbuing their art with seriousness, sincerity, and truth to nature.