Both Uses of
Pre-Raphaelite
in
Anna Karenina
- "Most likely they've already looked at all the antiques, and now they're making the round of the studios of the new people, the German humbug, and the cracked Pre-Raphaelite English fellow, and have only come to me to make the point of view complete," he thought.†
Part 5 *
- Pestsov, who was standing beside him, was talking to him almost all the time, condemning the music for its excessive affected assumption of simplicity, and comparing it with the simplicity of the Pre-Raphaelites in painting.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(Pre-Raphaelite) a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals (earlier than the time of Raphael)