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  • proper noun The principles of painting introduced by the Italian painter Raphael.

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Raphael +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • When she reported on progress of the rebuilding of her palace in Tsarskoye Selo, in a letter to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, in 1781, she told him that eleven of the rooms were to be dedicated to “Raphaelism.”

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • When she reported on progress of the rebuilding of her palace in Tsarskoye Selo, in a letter to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, in 1781, she told him that eleven of the rooms were to be dedicated to “Raphaelism.”

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • When she reported on progress of the rebuilding of her palace in Tsarskoye Selo, in a letter to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, in 1781, she told him that eleven of the rooms were to be dedicated to “Raphaelism.”

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • When she reported on progress of the rebuilding of her palace in Tsarskoye Selo, in a letter to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, in 1781, she told him that eleven of the rooms were to be dedicated to “Raphaelism.”

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • Constable, quite failing to realize what havoc has been made of this admirable plastic tradition by that puerile gospel of literary pretentiousness called Pre-Raphaelism.

    Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

  • Dickens has little to say about the music of his time, but in the reprinted paper called Old Lamps for New Ones (written in 1850), which is a strong condemnation of pre-Raphaelism in art, he attacks a similar movement in regard to music, and makes much fun of the Brotherhood.

    Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912

  • All the same, is not the exaggeration in the direction of academic loftiness and the rhetoric of passion based rather on the Raphaelism of the later time as it culminated in the Transfiguration?

    The Earlier Work of Titian Phillips, Claude 1897

  • Pre-Raphaelism had gone out of fashion for the time being; the tendency of the new age was towards impressionism, and in disgust old Deleglise had broken his palette across his knee, and swore never to paint again.

    Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893

  • But when the world became tired of Raphaelism it inevitably became unjust to Raphael.

    Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects Kenyon Cox 1887

  • Some generous art critics have even gone so far indeed as to credit an entire artistic movement, that of pre-Raphaelism, with a benevolent desire to accommodate art to the New Hero's peculiar ideas upon perspective.

    Children's Books and Their Illustrators Gleeson White 1874

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