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Indeed, by the mid-17th century, Caravaggism was already out of favour in Rome and had been superseded by a Raphaelesque classicism, practised most gracefully by Annibale Carracci.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
Cambiasi had an ardent fancy, and was a bold designer in a Raphaelesque mode.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
The Holy Family which he painted for Filippo di Averardo Salviati, and which is now in Earl Cowper's collection at Panshanger, is an almost Raphaelesque work, and attains the greatest excellence in art.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Kendrick, Flora
Under the stone shade, in the centre of the Raphaelesque distances, many mornings were passed ideally.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
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