Pre-Raphaelite Hear it!

Pre-Raphaelite Definition

Pre-Raphaelite (prē rā′fē əl īt′, -raf′ē-)

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

of or characteristic of Pre-Raphaelites
Pre-Raphaelite Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • painting: The crime scene is a derelict tenement as pre-Raphaelite painting, all swollen purple flesh tones and black, black shadows.
  • art: The Orphic Egg - Dark fantasy, non-fiction articles, gothic music, and pre-Raphaelite art.
  • painter: And yes, with such a surname, Fiona has to be related to the pre-Raphaelite painter, Sir John Everett Millais.
  • artist: The church contains a window of 1875 designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
  • minuteness: Every tassel of their rusty foliage is defined with pre-Raphaelite minuteness.

Modifying Another Word

  • almost: When the Victorian part was built there was a gothic revival and the angels are almost pre-Raphaelite.
Pre-Raphaelite Quotes

Reminds me of a Christmas-tree decorated by a Pre- Raphaelite.

—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)