Raphaelesque

American  

[raf-ee-uh-lesk, rey-fee-, rah-fee-] / ˌræf i əˈlɛsk, ˌreɪ fi-, ˌrɑ fi- /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the style of the painter Raphael.

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Etymology

Origin of Raphaelesque

1830–35; Raphael + -esque

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Raphaelesque

Indeed, by the mid-17th century, Caravaggism was already out of favour in Rome and had been superseded by a Raphaelesque classicism, practised most gracefully by Annibale Carracci.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

There are people, I know, who deny that his spotless Madonnas are anything more than pretty blondes of that period enhanced by the Raphaelesque touch, which they declare is a profane touch. 

From The Madonna of the Future by Henry James

It is the formal Raphaelesque idea; the other and much better one shows a division of the picture into thirds.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore