Pre-Raphaelite

[ pree-raf-ee-uh-lahyt, -rey-fee- ]

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noun

any of a group of English artists Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 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.

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

First recorded in 1840–50; pre- + Raphael + -ite ¹

She seduces some and terrifies others, seemingly wielding her cascading Pre-Raphaelite hair and often foul mouth as a weapon.

The frieze round the top of the same room clashes hopelessly with the calm pre-Raphaelite figures beneath it.

After studying in France, he went to England, where he was strongly influenced by the pre-Raphaelite movement.

The pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, as such, a thing of the past, and seemingly leaving few imitators.

Keats in this piece anticipates in a remarkable degree the feeling and method of the modern pre-Raphaelite schools.

His long, black hair, such as one sees in the saints and evangelists of the pre-Raphaelite artists, hung over his ears.

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