Pre-Raphaelite

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Pre-Raphaelite
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Pre-
           Raphaelites; "the Pre-Raphaelite painters"
    n 1: a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early
         Renaissance ideals

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

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.]

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