Definition of: Pre-Raphaelite

(prē·raf′ē·ə·līt, -rā′fē-) noun
1. A follower or adherent of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a society of artists, formed in England, 1847–49, by D. G. Rossetti, W. Holman-Hunt, John Millais, and others, stressing the truth to nature and delicacy of poetic sentiment that supposedly characterized Italian art before the time of Raphael.
2. Any modern artist with similar or related aims.
3. Any Italian painter before the time of Raphael.
—adjective
1. Before the time of Raphael.
2. Of or pertaining to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood or its followers.
—Pre-Raph′a·el·itism noun