Example sentences for: raphaelite

How can you use “raphaelite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The first American retrospective for the 19 th century English pre-Raphaelite tries to redeem him from his reputation as a sentimentalist.

  • Burne-Jones' lovers seem always in freeze frame, like the frustrated couple in that Pre-Raphaelite touchstone, Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn": "Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,/ Though winning near the goal."

  • Their idols were the Pre-Raphaelite ideologues John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose passion for medieval Italian art before the individualizing tendencies of the Renaissance (hence "pre-Raphael") they shared.

  • It has always been easy to make fun of Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), the English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer.


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