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Pre-Raphaelism

an English school of painting. It was their object to oppose that system of art which had grown up since the time of Raphael; one of the main characteristics of which was the pursuit of beauty at the expense of truth.

PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHER- HOOD, an association founded in 1848 by Willian Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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