Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator (1828-1882) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 53
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Something wrong?He painted women like prayers and wrote poems like spells, then buried his unpublished verses with his dead wife - only to dig them up seven years later when he needed them for a book.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti by George Frederic Watts_(14785060815).jpg?width=1200)
Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama (1892) (14785060815)
Chest on stand, owned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Burmese, 1700s, ebonised and gilded wood - Kelmscott Manor - Oxfordshire, England - DSC09972
Corner cupboard, owned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, japanned wood - Kelmscott Manor - Oxfordshire, England - DSC00007
Henry Treffry Dunn - Rossetti's studio at Cheyne Walk-_passage_to_panelled_room_(used_by_D.G._Rossetti)_LCCN2004674440.jpg?width=1200)
Kelmscott Manor (country house of Wm. Morris)- passage to panelled room (used by D.G. Rossetti) LCCN2004674440_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4539137.jpg?width=1200)
St Anne, Kew Cushions (79) - geograph.org.uk - 4539137In their own words 10
, I have been here before, / But when or how I cannot tell: / I know the grass beyond the door, / The sweet, keen smell, / The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
I am not as these are, the poet saith / In youth's pride, and the painter, among men / At bay, where never pencil comes nor pem
From perfect grief there need not be / Wisdom or even memory; / One thing then learned remains to me - / The woodspurge has a cup of three.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, a revolt against academic painting that looked back to medieval intensity and forward to Symbolism. His early work paired poetry influenced by Keats and Blake with paintings like The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849), often writing sonnets to accompany his own pictures. From around 1860 his style thickened into something darker and more sumptuous - dense Italian Renaissance color, single female figures pulled from a small circle of models, backgrounds lush with vegetation. His muses were Elizabeth Siddal, whom he married; Fanny Cornforth; and Jane Morris, each face recurring like an obsession. He also produced drawings, prints, and book illustrations, including work for his sister Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market. His influence stretched to Swinburne, William Morris, Burne-Jones, and the Aesthetic movement that followed - sensuality as subject, beauty as doctrine.
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