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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Venus Verticordia
mk221
1867
Pastel on paper
77x59cm
USA
1828-1882
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ecce Ancilla Domini
mk231
Oil on canvas
1849-50
72.4x41.9cm
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin
mk231
1848
Oil on canvas
83.2x65.4cm
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Arthur-s Tomb
mk231
1860
Oil on canvas
23.4x36.8cm
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Seed of David
mk231
90x60
Oil on canvas
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanct Grael
mk231
1864
29.2x41.9cm
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Monna Vanna
mk231
1866
Oil on canvas
35x34in
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Proserpine
mk231
1874
oil on canvas
126.4
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dagdrommen
mk234
1880
160x92cm
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
proserpine
mk247
1882,oil on canvas,30.5x14.75 in,77.5x37.5 cm,birmingham museum and art gallery,uk
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Vision of Fiammetta
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 146 ?? 90 cm
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beata Beatrix
Beata Beatrix, 1864-1870. Tate, London.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beata Beatrix
1864-1870. Tate, London.
Date 1864-1870
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Loving Cup
Date 1867(1867)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 66 x 45.7 cm (26 x 18 in)
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ecce Ancilla Domini!
1850(1850)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 73 x 41.9 cm (28.7 x 16.5 in)
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Roman Widow
1874(1874)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 103.7 x 91.2 cm (40.8 x 35.9 in)
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Annunciation
1849(1849)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin
1849(1849)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 83 X 65,5 cm
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Jane Morris
1868(1868)
Medium oil on canvas
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pia de Tolomei
1868
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 105.4 cm x 120.6 cm
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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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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