ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites
the Pre-Raphaelite painters
NOUN
- a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals
How To Use Pre-Raphaelite In A Sentence
- The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
- Rosetti, the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite painting movement shared the tenancy.
- His masterpiece is Rossetti and his Circle, published in 1922, which wickedly and wittily anatomizes the foibles of the Pre-Raphaelites.
- Yeats is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
- Midnight Muse offer you enchantments for the senses and the spirit, with our selection of Pre-Raphaelite art prints, mystical jewellery, velvet pouches, books, tarot, notecards, candles, and bath and body luxuries.
- His Swan Lake sets and costumes, informed not just by the overripe sensibility of the Pre-Raphaelites but also by Gustave Moreau and other decadents, look breathtaking on paper.
- He is an authority on, and collector of Victorian paintings particularly of the pre-Raphaelites and he is a bonvivant.
- And otherwise, the wotworld is coloured and detailed like a Pre-Raphaelite painting, and to similar aesthetic effect—viz., the embourgeiosification and prettifying of a notional past: Archive 2010-05-01
- `Wild and furious, with a life of its own, reminiscent of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. SUMMER OF SECRETS
- The curators are clearly aware that Dyce - who was older than the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - sits rather anomalously in the exhibition, yet surely and rightly felt that it would be unthinkable to omit the painter of Pegwell Bay.