Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who adopts the principles or follows the style of the painter Raphael.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.
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Examples
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John came prepared with a number of slides from artists both young and not-so that create works outside of the pre-raphaelite traditional so popular in fantasy illustration.
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I love pre-raphaelite artists, itmust have been great to see them live.
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Her Endicott website introduced me to pre-raphaelite art and a lot of other good stuff.
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Change of subject: I loved your pre-raphaelite stamps... do I gather you are another fan of William Morris?
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I see he used the pre-raphaelite model Jane Burden Morris
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Not because it was a bad film, but I loved Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbavilles with a passion and his heroine looked nothing like mine, and his landscape (he shot in France) did not evoke the lush greenery and golden light and pre-raphaelite hues of my head-film.
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Not because it was a bad film, but I loved Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbavilles with a passion and his heroine looked nothing like mine, and his landscape (he shot in France) did not evoke the lush greenery and golden light and pre-raphaelite hues of my head-film.
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With her childlike face, and that expression of immobile absorption, of secret, continual perplexity, she reminded me of the pre-raphaelite
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The little Japanese, with his eternal smile, like the bronze figures of his country, was dancing with a pre-raphaelite English girl.
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His appearance is aesthetic, like a fish in a pre-raphaelite picture.
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