单词 | Pre-Raphaelite |
释义 | Pre-Raphaelite/priːˈrafəlʌɪt /noun A member of a group of English 19th-century artists, including Holman Hunt, Millais, and D. G. Rossetti, who consciously sought to emulate the simplicity and sincerity of the work of Italian artists from before the time of Raphael.In Europe, a group of artists known as the Pre-Raphaelites revived old techniques of flame making and ornamentation....
Seven young English artists and writers founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 as a reaction against the slick sentimentality and academic convention of much Victorian art. Their work is characterized by strong line and colour, naturalistic detail, and often biblical or literary subjects. The group began to disperse in the 1850s, and the term became applied to the rather different later work of Rossetti, and that of Burne-Jones and William Morris, in which a romantic and decorative depiction of classical and medieval themes had come to predominate. adjective 1Relating to the Pre-Raphaelites.But it already revealed that he was a follower of Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite style of landscape....
1.1(Especially of a woman) reminiscent of a Pre-Raphaelite painting, typically in having long, thick, wavy auburn hair, pale skin, and a fey demeanour.No knights in shining armour, medieval trappings or masses of red hair are necessary for Knightly to express a Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic....
DerivativesPre-Raphaelitism
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