| 单词 | pre-raphaelite |
| 释义 | Pre-Raphaelite (priː ræfəlaɪt) Word forms: plural Pre-Raphaelites 1. countable noun The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of British painters in the nineteenth century who painted mainly scenes from medieval history and old stories. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Pre-Raphaelite art was created by the Pre-Raphaelites. ...a number of pre-Raphaelite murals designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1857. 3. adjective If you say that a woman looks Pre-Raphaelite, you mean that she looks like a character in a Pre-Raphaelite painting, for example because she has long wavy hair. Pre-Raphaelite in British English (ˌpriːˈræfəlaɪt) noun 1. a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an association of British painters and writers including Rossetti, Holman Hunt, and Millais, 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 adjective 2. of, in the manner of, or relating to Pre-Raphaelite painting and painters Derived forms Pre-Raphaelitism (ˌPre-ˈRaphaelˌitism) noun Pre-Raphaelite in American English (priˈreɪfiəlˌaɪt; priˈræfiəlˌaɪt) noun 1. a member of a society of artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, W. Holman Hunt, and J. E. Millais, formed in England in 1848 to encourage painting with the fidelity to nature that they considered characteristic of Italian art before Raphael 2. any Italian painter before Raphael adjective 3. of or characteristic of Pre-Raphaelites Examples of 'Pre-Raphaelite' in a sentence |
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