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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 Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and buried the bulk of his unpublished poems in his wife's grave at Highgate Cemetery, though he would later have them exhumed.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.

 

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Day Dream oil painting

Painting ID::  3576

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Day Dream
1880 62 1/2 x 36 1/2 in (157.5 x 92.7 cm) The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti La Donna Della Finestra oil painting

Painting ID::  3577

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
La Donna Della Finestra
1879 39 3/4 x 29 1/4 in Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Vision of Fiammetta oil painting

Painting ID::  3578

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Vision of Fiammetta
1878 57 1/2 x 35 in (146 x 89 cm) Private collection
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Sea Spell oil painting

Painting ID::  3579

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Sea Spell
1877 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti La Bella Mano oil painting

Painting ID::  3580

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
La Bella Mano
1875 Delaware Art Museum
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sancta Lilias oil painting

Painting ID::  3581

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sancta Lilias
1874 Tate Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Proserpine oil painting

Painting ID::  3582

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Proserpine
1874 46 x 22 in Tate Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti La Ghirlandata oil painting

Painting ID::  3583

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
La Ghirlandata
1873 Guildhall Art Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Beata Beatrix oil painting

Painting ID::  3584

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beata Beatrix
1872 34 x 26 in Tate Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Veronica Veronese oil painting

Painting ID::  3585

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Veronica Veronese
1872 43 x 35 in Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice oil painting

Painting ID::  3586

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice
1871 Walker Art Gallery,Liverpool
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti La Pia de' Tolomei oil painting

Painting ID::  3587

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
La Pia de' Tolomei

   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Joli Coeur oil painting

Painting ID::  3588

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Joli Coeur
1867
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti How Sir Galahad, Sir Boys and Sir Percival were fed with the Sanc Grael ; But Sir Percival's Sister oil painting

Painting ID::  3589

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
How Sir Galahad, Sir Boys and Sir Percival were fed with the Sanc Grael ; But Sir Percival's Sister
1864
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Saint Catherine oil painting

Painting ID::  3590

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Saint Catherine
1857
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Saint Catherine oil painting

Painting ID::  3591

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Saint Catherine
1857
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti King Rene's Honeymoon oil painting

Painting ID::  3592

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
King Rene's Honeymoon

   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Bower Meadow oil painting

Painting ID::  3593

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Bower Meadow
1872 33 1/2 x 26 1/2 in Manchester City Art Galleries, England
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Pandora oil painting

Painting ID::  3594

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pandora
1869
   
   
     

 

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Monna Vanna oil painting

Painting ID::  3595

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Monna Vanna
1866 35 x 34 in Tate Gallery, London
   
   
     

 

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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.