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Pre-ˈRaphaelism, preˈraph-, præ- [f. as prec. + -ism.] The artistic principles of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (= Pre-Raphaelitism); by Ruskin and others applied, by way of distinction, to the art of the painters who preceded Raphael; see quot. 1882 s.v. Pre-Raphaelitism.
1852Geo. Eliot Let. 24–25 July (1954) II. 48 The British Q[uarterl]y..have one subject of which I am jealous—‘Pre-Raphaelism in Painting and Literature’. 1853W. M. Rossetti in Præraph. Diaries & Lett. (1900) 308 Though both Præraphaelism and Brotherhood are as real as ever. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 231 Pre-Raphaelism, though open to the charge of mannerism, was a revulsion and protest against the unmanly conventionalisms into which a portion of the English school had fallen. 1862‘Shirley’ Nugæ Crit. viii. 356 Fra Angelico da Fiesole..is almost the only one of the præ-Raphaelites, whom a man who does not believe in præ-Raphaelism can thoroughly relish. 1882[see Pre-Raphaelitism]. So Pre-Raphaeˈlistic a. = next, B.
1884R. Buchanan Foxglove Manor II. xvi. 38 One of your detestable pre-Raphaelistic drawings. |