ALL meanings of pre-raphaelite
Pre-Raph·a·el·ite
P p - noun pre-raphaelite any of a group of English artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael. 1
- adjective pre-raphaelite of, relating to, or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites. 1
- countable noun pre-raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of British painters in the nineteenth century who painted mainly scenes from medieval history and old stories. 0
- adjective pre-raphaelite Pre-Raphaelite art was created by the Pre-Raphaelites. 0
- adjective pre-raphaelite If you say that a woman looks Pre-Raphaelite, you mean that she looks like a character in a Pre-Raphaelite painting, for example because she has long wavy hair. 0
- noun pre-raphaelite a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an association of British painters and writers including Rossetti, Holman Hunt, and Millais, founded in 1848 to combat the shallow conventionalism of academic painting and revive the fidelity to nature and the vivid realistic colour that they considered typical of Italian painting before Raphael 0
- adjective pre-raphaelite of, in the manner of, or relating to Pre-Raphaelite painting and painters 0
- noun pre-raphaelite 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 0
- noun pre-raphaelite any Italian painter before Raphael 0
- adjective pre-raphaelite of or characteristic of Pre-Raphaelites 0