Pre-Raphaelitism
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a word derived from
Pre-Raphaelite.
Pre-Raphaelitenounany 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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The city's interest in the movement was driven the Liverpool Academy, which "was run by artists who were extraordinarily generous and well-disposed towards Pre-Raphaelitism", Mr Newall says.
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
The leader of the second wave of that peculiarly English art movement, Pre-Raphaelitism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The proof of it was in the fact that they were being imitated on all sides; Ruskinism in writing and Pre-Raphaelitism in painting were becoming fashionable.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood