PRE-RAPHAELITE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Pre-Raphaelite

... we can see, looking backwards, seems slow and uncertain of its aim; before the power of modern armaments how helpless all the might of Rome! It is easy to fall into the idea that our mediaeval forefathers moved in the awkward attitudes of pre-Raphaelite painting, that their speech sounded as quaint to them as it does to us now, and that it was hardly possible for them to take life seriously. But in fact each age is to itself modern, progressive, up-to-date; the strong and active pushing their way forward, ...

— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen