Raphaeliten.adj.
/ˈraf(ɪ)əlʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈrɑfiəˌlaɪt/, /ˈræfiəˌlaɪt/ Now rare.
A. n.
An artist who adopts the principles or style of Raphael; a follower of Raphael. Cf. Pre-Raphaelite adj. and n., post-Raphaelite adj. at post- prefix 2a(b)(iv)(2).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > Raphaelite
Raphaelite1852
1852 R. Knox Man. Artistic Anat. 137 Whilst I write this, I hear of Raphaelites and pre-Raphaelites.
1896 K. P. Wormeley tr. H. de Balzac Le Cousin Pons xiv. 173 The two lost pictures of Raphael, so long and so persistently searched for by the Raphaelites, were in the possession of Élie Magus.
1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. 137 The artists who thus servilely travestied this prince of painters at his prime were Raphaelites.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. xii. 89 Harold is the only Rafaelite... He'll be the last, too.
1958 College Art Jrnl. 17 130 He had no use for the disquieting, tense and non-conformist style developed by such Raphaelites as Giulio Romano in Mantua and Peruzzi in Rome.
2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 9 June 44 A cubist, junior Raphaelite, surrealist, neo-classicist, and blue-ist; he had been them all.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Raphael or his style of painting.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > Italian Renaissance or 14-16th century > [adjective] > style of specific artist
Titianic1739
Titianesque1771
Raphaelesque1772
Michelangelesquea1806
Raphaelic1817
Peruginesque1842
Raphaelite1855
Leonardesque1864
Perugian1864
Botticellian1880
Giottesque1880
Titian1886
Holbeinesque1895
Botticellesque1901
Verrocchian1902
Giorgionesque1906
Orcagnesque1910
Caravaggiesque1925
Verrocchiesque1933
1855 C. J. Lever Maurice Tiernay 378 There was female loveliness of every type, from the dark-eyed beauty of Spanish race, to the almost divine regularity of a Raphaelite picture.
1861 S. Edwards Russians at Home xiv. 293 I was glad to find..that even in the ancient monastery of the Troitza a Raphaelite and post-Raphaelite school was being formed.
1879 Globe Encycl. V. 203/1 A Raphaelite grace and power mark the forms and expressions of his later works.
1961 A. Butler tr. H. Daniel-Rops Protestant Reformation iv. 259 Sodoma..managed to safeguard his own voluptuous individuality beside the Raphaelite masterpieces.
2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 17 Sept. 14 There is a bookshelf less than an inch above a fireplace shelf and it's crammed with books on Raphaelite and avant garde art.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1852