Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PRE-RAPHAELITE
PRE-RAPHAELITE Pre-Raph "a *el *ite, n.
Defn: 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
Pre-Raphaelite
Pre-Raph a el ite |ˈrafēəˌlīt, -rāfē -, -ˈräfē -priːˈræfəlaɪt | ▶noun a member of a group of English 19th -century artists, including Holman Hunt, Millais, and D. G. Rossetti, who consciously sought to emulate the simplicity and sincerity of the work of Italian artists from before the time of Raphael. Seven young English artists and writers founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 as a reaction against the slick sentimentality and academic convention of much Victorian art. Their work is characterized by strong line and color, naturalistic detail, and often biblical or literary subjects. The group began to disperse in the 1850s, and the term became applied to the rather different later work of Rossetti, and that of Burne-Jones and William Morris, in which a romantic and decorative depiction of classical and medieval themes had come to predominate. ▶adjective of or relating to the Pre-Raphaelites. • of a style or appearance associated with the later pre-Raphaelites or esp. with the women they frequently used as models, with long, thick, wavy auburn hair, pale skin, and a fey demeanor. DERIVATIVES Pre-Raph a el it ism |-ˌlītˌizəm |noun
Oxford Dictionary
Pre-Raphaelite
Pre-Raphaelite |priːˈrafəlʌɪt | ▶noun a member of a group of English 19th -century artists, including Holman Hunt, Millais, and D. G. Rossetti, who consciously sought to emulate the simplicity and sincerity of the work of Italian artists from before the time of Raphael. Seven young English artists and writers founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 as a reaction against the slick sentimentality and academic convention of much Victorian art. Their work is characterized by strong line and colour, naturalistic detail, and often biblical or literary subjects. The group began to disperse in the 1850s, and the term became applied to the rather different later work of Rossetti, and that of Burne-Jones and William Morris, in which a romantic and decorative depiction of classical and medieval themes had come to predominate. ▶adjective relating to the Pre-Raphaelites. • (especially of a woman ) reminiscent of a Pre-Raphaelite painting, typically in having long, thick, wavy auburn hair, pale skin, and a fey demeanour. DERIVATIVES Pre-Raphaelitism noun
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
Pre-Raphaelite
Pre-Raph a el ite /prìːrǽfəlàɪt /形容詞 名詞 C ラファエル前派の (画家 ) 〘19世紀のイギリスの美術運動 〙.
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