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Pre-Raphaelitism

  • a word derived from Pre-Raphaelite.
    Pre-Raphaelite
    noun
    any of a group of English artists Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael.

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Quite why the port became such a solid patron of Pre-Raphaelitism in the 1850s and 60s forms the basis of a new exhibition at the city's Walker Art Gallery.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2016

And so Pre-Raphaelitism flourished and became central to British art for the whole of the Victorian era, but as with all art movements, public taste eventually moved on.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2016

Science and religion converged in American Pre-Raphaelitism, as they did in Hudson River School painting and in the writings of Thoreau and Emerson.

From New York Times Aug. 15, 2013

For Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism was a neomedieval dream of romantic love and beauty.

From Time Magazine Archive

British eccentricity, whether thinking its way with the aid of genius into "Pre-Raphaelitism," or now again, with the aid of extreme cleverness and talent, into certain cruder forms of "impressionism," is sure of its effect.

From Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work by Ernest Rhys

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