Pre-Raphaelitism
- a word derived from Pre-Raphaelite.
Example Sentences
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Crucially, the curator says the "generosity of spending of those men and women really made Pre-Raphaelitism viable".
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2016
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
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
Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
His attraction to Pre-Raphaelitism was none the less real because it was sudden, and brought about partly by personal influence.
From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)
