Pre-Raphaelite
any of a group of English artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ) formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael.
of, relating to, or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Origin of Pre-Raphaelite
1Other words from Pre-Raphaelite
- Pre-Raph·a·el·it·ism, noun
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How to use Pre-Raphaelite in a sentence
Without the Rossettis the Preraphaelite Brotherhood would never have existed.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 | Elbert HubbardThe former, a Preraphaelite, led his hearers through dim mazes, Hyrcanian wilds.
Half A Chance | Frederic S. IshamA Quaker with an artistic bias becomes a Preraphaelite, and lo!
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 | Elbert HubbardHe was quite grateful to the little Preraphaelite for her incivility.
Miss Marjoribanks | Mrs (Margaret) OliphantThe figure is somewhat like the tender Eros of preraphaelite art, and with the same look of gentle melancholy.
Demonology and Devil-lore | Moncure Daniel Conway
British Dictionary definitions for Pre-Raphaelite
/ (ˌpriːˈræfəlaɪt) /
a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an association of British painters and writers including Rossetti, Holman Hunt, and Millais, founded in 1848 to combat the shallow conventionalism of academic painting and revive the fidelity to nature and the vivid realistic colour that they considered typical of Italian painting before Raphael
of, in the manner of, or relating to Pre-Raphaelite painting and painters
Derived forms of Pre-Raphaelite
- Pre-Raphaelitism, noun
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