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Examples
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Yet Klimt's early paintings of "Two Girls With an Oleander" c. 1890-92 reveals him drawing with subtle academic panache, his delicate girls plainly influenced by the late pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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A teacher may say "I am moving to a new school" with no concern that the listener may leap to the conclusion that he or she is a porpoise or a pre-Raphaelite.
Paul Lambert needs lessons in the lexicon of the football club | Harry Pearson 2011
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Yet his women fade into a pre-Raphaelite haze of watercolors and violin strings.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Brown may not be the best known of pre-Raphaelite artists, but those staging the exhibition will argue that he deserves to be seen as one of the most important – a true pioneer and radical who was decades ahead of his time.
Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite radical who shocked the Victorians 2011
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Yet his women fade into a pre-Raphaelite haze of watercolors and violin strings.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Yet his women fade into a pre-Raphaelite haze of watercolors and violin strings.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Heavily, painstakingly influenced by the detail of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, Grimshaw's focus reveals a near-hallucinatory clarity.
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For the record, I'm pleased to report that no longer was Christine either, her pre-Raphaelite profile and cascading auburn hair harking back to 19th-century artists' ateliers, even if the mood was somewhat sabotaged by Shaky and the Tremors now launching into the Rolling Stones' "It's All Over Now."
Tough Job in the Naked City Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Yet his women fade into a pre-Raphaelite haze of watercolors and violin strings.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Coming up this autumn are talks on everything from gardening to the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, with Fiona MacCarthy also presenting her new biography of Edward Burne-Jones.
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