The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy: British Art and Design

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Pre-Raphaelites galvanized the British art world in the second half of the nineteenth century with a creative vision that resonates to this day. Don’t miss “The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy: British Art and Design,” closing October 26. http://met.org/1ucK6hy

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828–1882) | Lady Lilith | 1867

Definition of Pre-Raphaelite in English:

Pre-Raphaelite

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Pronunciation: /priːˈrafəlʌɪt /

NOUN

A member of a group of English 19th-century artists,including Holman Hunt, Millais, and D. G. Rossetti, who consciously sought to emulate the simplicity andsincerity of the work of Italian artists from before the time of Raphael.

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Seven young English artists and writers founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 as a reaction against the slick sentimentality and academic convention of much Victorian art. Their work is characterized by strong line and colour, naturalistic detail, and often biblical or literary subjects. The group began to disperse in the 1850s, and the term became applied to the rather different later work of Rossetti, and that of Burne-Jones and William Morris, in which a romantic and decorative depiction of classical and medieval themes had come to predominate

ADJECTIVE

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1Relating to the Pre-Raphaelites.

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1.1(Especially of a woman) reminiscent of a Pre-Raphaelite painting, typically in having long, thick,wavy auburn hair, pale skin, and a feydemeanour.

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Derivatives

Pre-Raphaelitism

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