Raphaelesque
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Raphaelesque
Example Sentences
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Indeed, by the mid-17th century, Caravaggism was already out of favour in Rome and had been superseded by a Raphaelesque classicism, practised most gracefully by Annibale Carracci.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2016
A painting like Antigna's The Fire, 1850, looks stilted to us now, with its Raphaelesque pyramidal composition, its marmoreal smoothness, its "classicizing" of disaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Holy Family which he painted for Filippo di Averardo Salviati, and which is now in Earl Cowper's collection at Panshanger, is an almost Raphaelesque work, and attains the greatest excellence in art.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick
Almost everything specifically Raphaelesque in his work is the offspring of that power of design in which he is still the unapproached master.
From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox
The landscape is Raphaelesque, and might mark the time when that master and Fra Bartolommeo influenced his style.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick
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