Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A painter or writer belonging to or influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a society founded in England in 1848 to advance the style and spirit of Italian painting before Raphael.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Said of painting done according to the methods or style of the Preraphaelite Brotherhood.
- noun A member of the Preraphaelite Brotherhood.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of Preraphaelitism: as, Preraphaelite theories; the Preraphaelite school of painting.
- noun One who practises or favors Preraphaelitism in art or poetry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
- noun Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German painters often called
Nazarenes , or one who paints and draws with extreme minuteness of detail. - adjective Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
preraphaelite . - noun Alternative spelling of
preraphaelite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites
- noun a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals
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Examples
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D. G. Rossetti was part of the group of artists known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whose aim was to return to the medieval simplicites of art before Raphael.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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D. G. Rossetti was part of the group of artists known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whose aim was to return to the medieval simplicites of art before Raphael.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Well, he’s the leader of a group of artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007
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Well, he’s the leader of a group of artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007
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Well, he’s the leader of a group of artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007
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Inquiry counsel Robert Jay's dull monotone didn't help, and poor Jay also had to admit he had never read the poetry of Christina Rossetti, which the tabloids' Pre-Raphaelite correspondents had used against the long-time English teacher to suggest an unhealthy preoccupation with death.
They'd built Charlotte Church up, and felt they could knock her down | Sketch 2011
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Yet while the straight lines and flat veneered panels of Koloman Moser's "Enchanted Princesses Cabinet" 1900 foreshadow a design vocabulary several decades in the future, the long-haired princesses inlaid in marquetry are pure Pre-Raphaelite medievalism, proving that Romantic ideas weren't entirely discarded by the rising generation.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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How Chris used it: We planned for the entire film to feel like a Pre-Raphaelite painting in terms of the darker tones too and the grey tones and colors in the Pacific Northwest as well.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 2ND | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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Posing in lucious velvets amidst a hauntingly ethereal frozen landscape, Ozeriâs dramatic, rock ânâ roll, sumptuously gorgeous portraits call to mind the unparalleled beauty of Pre-Raphaelite painters.
Yigal Ozeri Interviewed By Beautiful/Decay The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer is at Manchester art gallery from 24 September to 29 January.
Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite radical who shocked the Victorians 2011
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