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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1828-1882 Rossetti's first major paintings display some of the realist qualities of the early Pre-Raphaelite movement. His Girlhood of Mary, Virgin and Ecce Ancilla Domini both portray Mary as an emaciated and repressed teenage girl. His incomplete picture Found was his only major modern-life subject. It depicted a prostitute, lifted up from the street by a country-drover who recognises his old sweetheart. However, Rossetti increasingly preferred symbolic and mythological images to realistic ones. This was also true of his later poetry. Many of the ladies he portrayed have the image of idealized Botticelli's Venus, who was supposed to portray Simonetta Vespucci. Although he won support from the John Ruskin, criticism of his clubs caused him to withdraw from public exhibitions and turn to waterhum, which could be sold privately. In 1861, Rossetti published The Early Italian Poets, a set of English translations of Italian poetry including Dante Alighieri's La Vita Nuova. These, and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, inspired his art in the 1850s. His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired his new friends of this time, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Rossetti also typically wrote sonnets for his pictures, such as "Astarte Syraica". As a designer, he worked with William Morris to produce images for stained glass and other decorative devices. Both these developments were precipitated by events in his private life, in particular by the death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal. She had taken an overdose of laudanum shortly after giving birth to a stillborn child. Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and buried the bulk of his unpublished poems in his wife's grave at Highgate Cemetery, though he would later have them exhumed. He idealised her image as Dante's Beatrice in a number of paintings, such as Beata Beatrix. These paintings were to be a major influence on the development of the European Symbolist movement. In these works, Rossetti's depiction of women became almost obsessively stylised. He tended to portray his new lover Fanny Cornforth as the epitome of physical eroticism, whilst another of his mistresses Jane Burden, the wife of his business partner William Morris, was glamorised as an ethereal goddess.



Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Christmas Carol (mk28) oil painting artist
  Painting ID::   24420
A Christmas Carol (mk28)
1857-8 Watercolour and Gouache on paper,Mounted on panel 34.3 x 29.7 cm Fogg Museum of Art,Harvard University,Cambridge, MA


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Seed of David (mk28) oil painting artist
  Painting ID::   24421
The Seed of David (mk28)
1858-64 Oil on canvas centre panel of triptych 228.5 x 152 cm Wings 185 x 62 cm Llandaff Cathedral Cardiff


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Writing on the Sand (mk28) oil painting artist
  Painting ID::   24422
Writing on the Sand (mk28)
1859 Watercolour on paper 26.5 x 24 cm British Museum, London


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sir Galahad at the Ruined Chapel (mk28) oil painting artist
  Painting ID::   24423
Sir Galahad at the Ruined Chapel (mk28)
1859 Watercolour and bodycolour on paper 29.1 x 34.5 cm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Bocca Baciata (mk28) oil painting artist
  Painting ID::   24424
Bocca Baciata (mk28)
1859 Oil on panel 32.2 x 27.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1828-1882 Rossetti's first major paintings display some of the realist qualities of the early Pre-Raphaelite movement. His Girlhood of Mary, Virgin and Ecce Ancilla Domini both portray Mary as an emaciated and repressed teenage girl. His incomplete picture Found was his only major modern-life subject. It depicted a prostitute, lifted up from the street by a country-drover who recognises his old sweetheart. However, Rossetti increasingly preferred symbolic and mythological images to realistic ones. This was also true of his later poetry. Many of the ladies he portrayed have the image of idealized Botticelli's Venus, who was supposed to portray Simonetta Vespucci. Although he won support from the John Ruskin, criticism of his clubs caused him to withdraw from public exhibitions and turn to waterhum, which could be sold privately. In 1861, Rossetti published The Early Italian Poets, a set of English translations of Italian poetry including Dante Alighieri's La Vita Nuova. These, and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, inspired his art in the 1850s. His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired his new friends of this time, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Rossetti also typically wrote sonnets for his pictures, such as "Astarte Syraica". As a designer, he worked with William Morris to produce images for stained glass and other decorative devices. Both these developments were precipitated by events in his private life, in particular by the death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal. She had taken an overdose of laudanum shortly after giving birth to a stillborn child. Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and buried the bulk of his unpublished poems in his wife's grave at Highgate Cemetery, though he would later have them exhumed. He idealised her image as Dante's Beatrice in a number of paintings, such as Beata Beatrix. These paintings were to be a major influence on the development of the European Symbolist movement. In these works, Rossetti's depiction of women became almost obsessively stylised. He tended to portray his new lover Fanny Cornforth as the epitome of physical eroticism, whilst another of his mistresses Jane Burden, the wife of his business partner William Morris, was glamorised as an ethereal goddess. . Related Artists to Dante Gabriel Rossetti: | Thomas Eakins | Daniel Mijtens | Giacinto Gimignani | Charles Furneaux | Cornelis de Heem |

  

  

  

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