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Pre-Raphaelite
noun
- a member of a society of artists () 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
- any Italian painter before Raphael
adjective
of or characteristic of Pre-Raphaelites
See Pre-Raphaelite in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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