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Pre-Raphaelite

DEFINITIONS OF: Pre-Raphaelite

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adj of or relating to or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites

“the Pre-Raphaelite painters”

n a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals

Examples:
William Holman Hunt
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
Sir John Everett Millais
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882)
Type of:
artist, creative person
a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
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