Raphaelesque
[ raf-ee-uh-lesk, rey-fee-, rah-fee- ]
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of the style of the painter Raphael.
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How to use Raphaelesque in a sentence
The Madone Nourrice, who is the Raphaelesque and generally late and decadence one.
Our Fathers Have Told Us | John RuskinIt is this which prevents Ingres from being truly Raphaelesque, and Pradier from being really classical.
French Art | W. C. BrownellWhose likeness are you, poor girl, with your everyday prettiness of brows and chin, and your Raphaelesque crick in the neck?
Suburban Sketches | William Dean HowellsAs frontispiece is a portrait of the artist by himself, very Raphaelesque.
Freaks of Fanaticism | Sabine Baring-GouldThe landscape is Raphaelesque, and might mark the time when that master and Fra Bartolommeo influenced his style.
Fra Bartolommeo and Andrea D'Agnolo | Leader Scott
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