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Indeed, by the mid-17th century, Caravaggism was already out of favour in Rome and had been superseded by a Raphaelesque classicism, practised most gracefully by Annibale Carracci.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
The whole face partakes of the Raphaelesque cast of physiognomy.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
The walls were painted in a Raphaelesque pattern, the coronet and arms of the Boccarini in the centre.
From The Italians by Elliot, Frances
The foliated and floral ornament in style is not Raphaelesque, but more allied to early Gothic; the manner is graceful but feeble.
From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington
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