pre-raphaelite

Definition of Pre-raphaelite in English :

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Noun

1. pre-raphaelite

a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals

Adjective

2. pre-raphaelite

of or relating to or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites

Example Sentences:
'the Pre-Raphaelite painters'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pre-raphaelite

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noun

1.

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

adjective

2.

of, in the manner of, or relating to Pre-Raphaelite painting and painters

Pre-raphaelite

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noun

1.

a member of a society of artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, W. Holman Hunt, and J. E. Millais, formed in England in 1848 to encourage painting with the fidelity to nature that they considered characteristic of Italian art before Raphael

2.

any Italian painter before Raphael

adjective

3.

of or characteristic of Pre-Raphaelites

Pre-raphaelite

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n.

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.

adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites.

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