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Indeed, by the mid-17th century, Caravaggism was already out of favour in Rome and had been superseded by a Raphaelesque classicism, practised most gracefully by Annibale Carracci.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
Cupids hide in the Raphaelesque scrolls on the arches, classic divinities rest on the ceilings, but in the dining room the homely nature of the man who did his own marketing, creeps out.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick
Whose likeness are you, poor girl, with your everyday prettiness of brows and chin, and your Raphaelesque crick in the neck?
From Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells
Another young lady appeared against the Raphaelesque landscape.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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