'Preraphaelite' definitions:
Definition of 'Preraphaelite'
From: GCIDE
- Preraphaelite \Pre*raph"a*el*ite\, a. Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape. --Ruskin. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Preraphaelite'
From: GCIDE
- Preraphaelite \Pre*raph"a*el*ite\, n.
- 1. One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German painters often called Nazarenes, or one who paints and draws with extreme minuteness of detail. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]