Pre-Raphaelite (redirected from Pre-raphaelites)

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-Raphaelite [ˌpriːˈræfəlaɪt]

n

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an association of British painters and writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), Holman Hunt (1827-1910), and Sir John Everett Millais (1829-96), 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 (1483-1520)

adj

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) of, in the manner of, or relating to Pre-Raphaelite painting and painters

Pre-Raphaelitism  n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Pre-Raphaelite - a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals artist, creative person - a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
Adj.	1.	Pre-Raphaelite - of or relating to or characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelites; "the Pre-Raphaelite painters"

Translations

pre-Raphaelite [ˈpriːˈræfəlaɪt]

A. ADJ → prerrafaelista

B. N → prerrafaelista mf

Pre-Raphaelite [ˌpriːˈræfəlaɪt]

n → préraphaélite m/f
the Pre-Raphaelites → les préraphaélites

adj

[art, painting] → préraphaélite

(fig) [looks] → préraphaélite

pre-Raphaelite

adj → präraffaelitisch

n → Präraffaelit m

Pre-Raphaelite [priːˈræfəlaɪt] n & adj → preraffaellita (m/f)