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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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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