pre-raphaelite

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a member or follower of the nineteenth-century Pre-Raphaelite movement in British art

   The young Pre-Raphaelite rejected academic conventions in favor of vivid detail.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to the Pre-Raphaelites or their detailed, luminous style inspired by art before Raphael

   The portrait's jewel-like colors gave it a Pre-Raphaelite intensity.

Formed from pre-, Raphael, and -ite. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in 1848, sought the detail, color, and sincerity they associated with Italian art before Raphael.

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