The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has an intriguing online exhibit about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which was formed by three painters, J.E. Millais, W.H. Hunt, and D.G. Rossetti in the 1840s, as a response to the establishment of photography as a popular medium. The Brotherhood and their followers aimed to "return to the purity, sincerity, and clarity of detail found in medieval and early Renaissance art that preceded Raphael (1483-1520)." The images in the exhibit are of both photographs and paintings, and many of the paintings are such fine interpretations of natural scenes that they look much like photographs. The John Ruskin painting of a clump of birch and ferns on page three is stunning in its own right. The photograph by John Payne Jennings on page six includes not only an image of the natural setting, but also a painter who is painting the same scene. The caption states that such occurrences were common at the time, which also makes such items even more interesting.