Pre-Raphaelitism

Pre-Raph·a·el·ite also pre-Raph·a·el·ite  (pr-rf--lt, -rf-)

n.

A painter or writer belonging to or influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a society founded in England in 1848 to advance the style and spirit of Italian painting before Raphael.

adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites.

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Pre-Rapha·el·itism n.

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Pre-Raphaelitism

the principles of the 19th-century artists and writers who sought to restore the principles and practices thought to be characteristic of Italian art before Raphael. — Pre-Raphaelite, n., adj.

See also: Art