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Indeed, by the mid-17th century, Caravaggism was already out of favour in Rome and had been superseded by a Raphaelesque classicism, practised most gracefully by Annibale Carracci.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
Like an eclectic Greek he drew from all sources, and then blended and united these features in a peculiar style of his own and stamped them with his peculiar Raphaelesque stamp.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke
It is not Raphaelesque; it is an unfortunate composite.
From Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters by Homer W. Colby
Another young lady appeared against the Raphaelesque landscape.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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