higher idea (Grotenhuis, 2003). For instance, loose hair and lush clothes came to represent sensuality. The painters of the movement wanted to return to the spirituality of the arts before Raphaël Santi. This resulted in a painting style with bright colors and true-to-nature details (fig. 1), sometimes also inspired by the idea of the oriental woman, wherein a flight from reality was created by choosing literary and mythological figures as a subject (Little, 2003). Thus, the Pre-Raphaelite painting