Pre-Raphaelite

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Preraphaelite \Pre*raph"a*el*ite\, a.
     Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a
     preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape. --Ruskin.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Preraphaelite \Pre*raph"a*el*ite\, n.
     1. One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael;
        one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. 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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Pre-Raphaelite
       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