Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Wikipedia Dante Gabriel Rossetti From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search British poet, illustrator, painter and translator Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti c. 1871, by George Frederic Watts Born Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (1828-05-12)12 May 1828 London, England Died 9 April 1882(1882-04-09) (aged 53) Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England Occupation Poet, illustrator, painter Education King's College School Royal Academy Spouse Elizabeth Siddal ​ ​ (m. 1860; d. 1862)​ Signature Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (/rəˈzɛti/),[1] was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. Rossetti's art was characterised by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence, The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work. He frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures, spanning from The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849) and Astarte Syriaca (1877), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as Goblin Market by the celebrated poet Christina Rossetti, his sister. Rossetti's personal life was closely linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses Elizabeth Siddal (whom he married), Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Beginnings 2.2 Dante and Medievalism 2.3 Book arts 2.4 Religious influence on works 2.5 A new direction 2.6 Cheyne Walk years 3 Decline and death 4 Collections and critical assessment 5 Media 6 Fiction 7 Influence 8 Selected works 8.1 Books 8.2 Double works 8.3 Paintings 8.4 Drawings 8.5 Woodcut illustrations 9 Decorative arts 10 Caricatures and sketches 11 See also 12 References 13 Bibliography 14 External links Early life[edit] Self-portrait, 1847 Original manuscript of Autumn Song by Rossetti, 1848, Ashley Library The son of émigré Italian scholar Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti and his wife Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti was born in London, on 12 May 1828. His family and friends called him Gabriel, but in publications he put the name Dante first in honour of Dante Alighieri. He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, critic William Michael Rossetti, and author Maria Francesca Rossetti.[2] His father was a Roman Catholic, at least prior to his marriage, and his mother was an Anglican; ostensibly Gabriel was baptised as and was a practising Anglican. John William Polidori, who had died seven years before his birth, was Rossetti's maternal uncle. During his childhood, Rossetti was home educated and later attended King's College School,[3] and often read the Bible, along with the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, and Lord Byron.[4] The youthful Rossetti is described as "self-possessed, articulate, passionate and charismatic"[5] but also "ardent, poetic and feckless".[6] Like all his siblings, he aspired to be a poet and attended King's College School, in its original location near the Strand in London. He also wished to be a painter, having shown a great interest in Medieval Italian art. He studied at Henry Sass' Drawing Academy from 1841 to 1845, when he enrolled in the Antique School of the Royal Academy, which he left in 1848. After leaving the Royal Academy, Rossetti studied under Ford Madox Brown, with whom he retained a close relationship throughout his life.[7] Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at 22 years of Age by William Holman Hunt Following the exhibition of William Holman Hunt's painting The Eve of St. Agnes, Rossetti sought out Hunt's friendship. The painting illustrated a poem by John Keats. Rossetti's own poem, "The Blessed Damozel", was an imitation of Keats, and he believed Hunt might share his artistic and literary ideals. Together they developed the philosophy of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which they founded along with John Everett Millais. The group's intention was to reform English art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo and the formal training regime introduced by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Their approach was to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art.[8][9] The eminent critic John Ruskin wrote: Every Pre-Raphaelite landscape background is painted to the last touch, in the open air, from the thing itself. Every Pre-Raphaelite figure, however studied in expression, is a true portrait of some living person.[10] For the first issue of the brotherhood's magazine, The Germ, published early in 1850, Rossetti contributed a poem, "The Blessed Damozel", and a story about a fictional early Italian artist inspired by a vision of a woman who bids him combine the human and the divine in his art.[11] Rossetti was always more interested in the medieval than in the modern side of the movement, working on translations of Dante and other medieval Italian poets, and adopting the stylistic characteristics of the early Italians. Career[edit] The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849). The models were the artist's mother for Saint Anne and his sister Christina for the Virgin.[12] Beginnings[edit] Rossetti's first major paintings in oil display the realist qualities of the early Pre-Raphaelite movement. His Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849) and Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850) portray Mary as a teenage girl. William Bell Scott saw Girlhood in progress in Hunt's studio and remarked on young Rossetti's technique: He was painting in oils with water-colour brushes, as thinly as in water-colour, on canvas which he had primed with white till the surface was a smooth as cardboard, and every tint remained transparent. I saw at once that he was not an orthodox boy, but acting purely from the aesthetic motive. The mixture of genius and dilettantism of both men shut me up for the moment, and whetted my curiosity.[13] Stung by criticism of his second major painting, Ecce Ancilla Domini, exhibited in 1850, and the "increasingly hysterical critical reaction that greeted Pre-Raphaelitism" that year, Rossetti turned to watercolours, which could be sold privately. Although his work subsequently won support from John Ruskin, Rossetti only rarely exhibited thereafter.[5] Dante and Medievalism[edit] In 1850, Rossetti met Elizabeth Siddal, an important model for the Pre-Raphaelite painters. Over the next decade, she became his muse, his pupil, and his passion. They were married in 1860.[14] Rossetti's incomplete picture Found, begun in 1853 and unfinished at his death, was his only major modern-life subject. It depicted a prostitute, lifted from the street by a country drover who recognises his old sweetheart. However, Rossetti increasingly preferred symbolic and mythological images to realistic ones,[15] For many years, Rossetti worked on English translations of Italian poetry including Dante Alighieri's La Vita Nuova (published as The Early Italian Poets in 1861). These and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur inspired his art of the 1850s. He created a method of painting in watercolours, using thick pigments mixed with gum to give rich effects similar to medieval illuminations. He also developed a novel drawing technique in pen-and-ink. His first published illustration was "The Maids of Elfen-Mere" (1855), for a poem by his friend William Allingham, and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Poems and illustrations for works by his sister Christina Rossetti.[16] His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.[17] Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti, but were much influenced by his works, and met him by recruiting him as a contributor to their Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which Morris founded in 1856 to promote his ideas about art and poetry.[18][19] In February 1857, Rossetti wrote to William Bell Scott: Two young men, projectors of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, have recently come up to town from Oxford, and are now very intimate friends of mine. Their names are Morris and Jones. They have turned artists instead of taking up any other career to which the university generally leads, and both are men of real genius. Jones's designs are marvels of finish and imaginative detail, unequalled by anything unless perhaps Albert Dürer's finest works.[18] That summer Morris and Rossetti visited Oxford and finding the Oxford Union debating-hall under construction, pursued a commission to paint the upper walls with scenes from Le Morte d'Arthur and to decorate the roof between the open timbers. Seven artists were recruited, among them Valentine Prinsep and Arthur Hughes,[20] and the work was hastily begun. The frescoes, done too soon and too fast, began to fade at once and now are barely decipherable. Rossetti recruited two sisters, Bessie and Jane Burden, as models for the Oxford Union murals, and Jane became Morris's wife in 1859.[21] Book arts[edit] Literature was integrated into the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's artistic practice from the beginning (including that of Rossetti), with many paintings making direct literary references. For example, John Everett Millais' early work, Isabella (1849), depicts an episode from John Keats' Isabella, or, the Pot of Basil (1818). Rossetti was particularly critical of the gaudy ornamentation of Victorian gift books and sought to refine bindings and illustrations to align with the principles of the Aesthetic Movement.[22] Rossetti's key bindings were designed between 1861 and 1871.[23] He collaborated as a designer/illustrator with his sister, poet Christina Rossetti, on the first edition of Goblin Market (1862) and The Prince's Progress (1866). One of Rossetti's most prominent contributions to illustration was the collaborative book, Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (published by Edward Moxon in 1857 and known colloquially as the 'Moxon Tennyson'). Moxon envisioned Royal Academicians as the illustrators for the ambitious project, but this vision was quickly disrupted once Millais, a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, became involved in the project.[24] Millais recruited William Holman Hunt and Rossetti for the project, and the involvement of these artists reshaped the entire production of the book. In reference to the Pre-Raphaelite illustrations, Laurence Housman wrote "[...] The illustrations of the Pre-Raphaelites were personal and intellectual readings of the poems to which they belonged, not merely echoes in line of the words of the text."[25] The Pre-Raphaelites’ visualization of Tennyson's poems indicated the range of possibilities in interpreting written works, as did their unique approach to visualizing narrative on the canvas.[24] Pre-Raphaelite illustrations do not simply refer to the text in which they appear; rather, they are part of a bigger program of art: the book as a whole. Rossetti's philosophy about the role of illustration was revealed in an 1855 letter to poet William Allingham, when he wrote, in reference to his work on the Moxon Tennyson: "I have not begun even designing for them yet, but fancy I shall try the Vision of Sin, and Palace of Art etc.—those where one can allegorize on one’s own hook, without killing for oneself and everyone a distinct idea of the poet’s."[26] This passage makes apparent Rossetti's desire not to just support the poet's narrative, but to create an allegorical illustration that functions separately from the text as well. In this respect, Pre-Raphaelite illustrations go beyond depicting an episode from a poem, but rather function like subject paintings within a text. Illustration is not subservient to text and vice versa. Careful and conscientious craftsmanship is practiced in every aspect of production, and each element, though qualifiedly artistic in its own right, contributes to a unified art object (the book). Religious influence on works[edit] Dante Gabriel Rossetti by George Wylie Hutchinson England began to see a revival of religious beliefs and practices starting in 1833 and moving onward to about 1845.[27] The Oxford Movement, also known as the Tractarian Movement, had recently begun a push toward the restoration of Christian traditions that had been lost in the Church.[28] Rossetti and his family had been attending Christ Church, Albany Street since 1843. His brother, William Michael Rossetti recorded that services had begun changing in the church since the start of the "High Anglican movement". Rev. William Dodsworth was responsible for these changes, including the addition of the Catholic practice of placing flowers and candles by the altar. Rossetti and his family, along with two of his colleagues (one of which cofounded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) had also attended St. Andrew's on Wells Street, a High Anglican church. It is noted that the Anglo-Catholic revival very much affected Rossetti in the late 1840s and early 1850s. The spiritual expressions of his painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, finished in 1849, are evident of this claim. The painting's altar is decorated very similarly to that of a Catholic altar, proving his familiarity with the Anglo-Catholic revival. The subject of the painting, the Blessed Virgin, is sewing a red cloth, a significant part of the Oxford Movement that emphasized the embroidering of altar cloths by women.[29] Oxford Reformers identified two major aspects to their movement, that "the end of all religion must be communion with God," and "that the Church was divinely instituted for the very purpose of bringing about this consummation."[30] From the beginning of the Brotherhood's formation in 1848, their pieces of art included subjects of noble or religious disposition. Their aim was to communicate a message of "moral reform" through the style of their works, exhibiting a "truth to nature".[31] Specifically in Rossetti's "Hand and Soul," written in 1849, he displays his main character Chiaro as an artist with spiritual inclinations. In the text, Chiaro's spirit appears before him in the form of a woman who instructs him to "set thine hand and thy soul to serve man with God."[32] The Rossetti Archive defines this text as "Rossetti's way of constellating his commitments to art, religious devotion, and a thoroughly secular historicism."[33] Likewise, in "The Blessed Damozel," written between 1847 and 1870, Rossetti uses biblical language such as "From the gold bar of Heaven" to describe the Damozel looking down to Earth from Heaven.[34] Here we see a connection between body and soul, mortal and supernatural, a common theme in Rossetti's works. In "Ave" (1847), Mary awaits the day that she will meet her son in Heaven, uniting the earthly with the heavenly. The text highlights a strong element in Anglican Marian theology that describes Mary's body and soul having been assumed into Heaven.[29] William Michael Rossetti, his brother, wrote in 1895: "He was never confirmed, professed no religious faith, and practised no regular religious observances; but he had ... sufficient sympathy with the abstract ideas and the venerable forms of Christianity to go occasionally to an Anglican church — very occasionally, and only as the inclination ruled him." A new direction[edit] Bocca Baciata (1859), modelled by Fanny Cornforth, signalled a new direction in Rossetti's work (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Around 1860, Rossetti returned to oil painting, abandoning the dense medieval compositions of the 1850s in favour of powerful close-up images of women in flat pictorial spaces characterised by dense colour. These paintings became a major influence on the development of the European Symbolist movement.[35] In them, Rossetti's depiction of women became almost obsessively stylised. He portrayed his new lover Fanny Cornforth as the epitome of physical eroticism, whilst Jane Burden, the wife of his business partner William Morris, was glamorised as an ethereal goddess. "As in Rossetti's previous reforms, the new kind of subject appeared in the context of a wholesale reconfiguration of the practice of painting, from the most basic level of materials and techniques up to the most abstract or conceptual level of the meanings and ideas that can be embodied in visual form."[35] These new works were based not on medievalism, but on the Italian High Renaissance artists of Venice, Titian and Veronese.[35][36] In 1861, Rossetti became a founding partner in the decorative arts firm, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. with Morris, Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Philip Webb, Charles Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall.[19] Rossetti contributed designs for stained glass and other decorative objects. Rossetti's wife, Elizabeth, died of an overdose of laudanum in 1862, possibly a suicide, shortly after giving birth to a stillborn child.[37][38] Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and on the death of his beloved Lizzie, buried the bulk of his unpublished poems with her at Highgate Cemetery, though he later had them dug up. He idealised her image as Dante's Beatrice in a number of paintings, such as Beata Beatrix.[39] Albumen print of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll; 1863) Cheyne Walk years[edit] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Dante Gabriel Rossetti" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) His home at 16 Cheyne Walk, London After the death of his wife, Rossetti leased a Tudor House at 16, Cheyne Walk, in Chelsea, where he lived for 20 years surrounded by extravagant furnishings and a parade of exotic birds and animals.[40] Rossetti was fascinated with wombats, asking friends to meet him at the "Wombat's Lair" at the London Zoo in Regent's Park, and spending hours there. In September 1869, he acquired the first of two pet wombats, which he named "Top". It was brought to the dinner table and allowed to sleep in the large centrepiece during meals. Rossetti's fascination with exotic animals continued throughout his life, culminating in the purchase of a llama and a toucan, which he dressed in a cowboy hat and trained to ride the llama round the dining-table for his amusement.[41] Rossetti maintained Fanny Cornforth (described delicately by William Allington as Rossetti's "housekeeper")[42] in her own establishment nearby in Chelsea, and painted many voluptuous images of her between 1863 and 1865.[43] The Roman Widow (1874), Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico In 1865, he discovered auburn-haired Alexa Wilding, a dressmaker and would-be actress who was engaged to model for him on a full-time basis and sat for Veronica Veronese, The Blessed Damozel, A Sea–Spell, and other paintings.[44][45] She sat for more of his finished works than any other model, but comparatively little is known about her due to the lack of any romantic connection with Rossetti. He spotted her one evening in the Strand in 1865 and was immediately struck by her beauty. She agreed to sit for him the following day, but failed to arrive. He spotted her again weeks later, jumped from the cab he was in and persuaded her to go straight to his studio. He paid her a weekly fee to sit for him exclusively, afraid that other artists might employ her.[46] They shared a lasting bond; after Rossetti's death Wilding was said to have travelled regularly to place a wreath on his grave.[47] Jane Morris, whom Rossetti had used as a model for the Oxford Union murals he painted with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones in 1857, also sat for him during these years, she "consumed and obsessed him in paint, poetry, and life".[44] Jane Morris was also photographed by John Robert Parsons, whose photographs were painted by Rossetti. In 1869, Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, Kelmscott Manor at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, as a summer home, but it became a retreat for Rossetti and Morris to have a long-lasting and complicated liaison. They spent summers there with the Morris's children, while Morris travelled to Iceland in 1871 and 1873.[48] Rossetti reading proofs of Ballads and Sonnets at 16 Cheyne Walk, by Henry Treffry Dunn (1882) During these years, Rossetti was prevailed upon by friends, in particular Charles Augustus Howell, to exhume his poems from his wife's grave which he did, collating and publishing them in 1870 in the volume Poems by D. G. Rossetti. They created controversy when they were attacked as the epitome of the "fleshly school of poetry". Their eroticism and sensuality caused offence. One poem, "Nuptial Sleep", described a couple falling asleep after sex. It was part of Rossetti's sonnet sequence The House of Life, a complex series of poems tracing the physical and spiritual development of an intimate relationship. Rossetti described the sonnet form as a "moment's monument", implying that it sought to contain the feelings of a fleeting moment, and reflect on their meaning. The House of Life was a series of interacting monuments to these moments – an elaborate whole made from a mosaic of intensely described fragments. It was Rossetti's most substantial literary achievement. The collection included some translations, including his "Ballad Of Dead Ladies", an 1869 translation of François Villon's poem "Ballade des dames du temps jadis". (The word "yesteryear" is credited to Rossetti as a neologism used for the first time in this translation.) In 1881, Rossetti published a second volume of poems, Ballads and Sonnets, which included the remaining sonnets from The House of Life sequence. The Day Dream (1880). The sitter is Jane Morris.[49][50] Alexa Wilding (1879) Decline and death[edit] The savage reaction of critics to Rossetti's first collection of poetry contributed to a mental breakdown in June 1872, and although he joined Jane Morris at Kelmscott that September, he "spent his days in a haze of chloral and whisky".[51] The next summer he was much improved, and both Alexa Wilding and Jane sat for him at Kelmscott, where he created a soulful series of dream-like portraits.[51] In 1874, Morris reorganised his decorative arts firm, cutting Rossetti out of the business, and the polite fiction that both men were in residence with Jane at Kelmscott could not be maintained. Rossetti abruptly left Kelmscott in July 1874 and never returned. Toward the end of his life, he sank into a morbid state, darkened by his drug addiction to chloral hydrate and increasing mental instability. He spent his last years as a recluse at Cheyne Walk. On Easter Sunday, 1882, he died at the country house of a friend, where he had gone in a vain attempt to recover his health, which had been destroyed by chloral as his wife's had been destroyed by laudanum. He died of Bright's Disease, a disease of the kidneys from which he had been suffering for some time. He had been housebound for some years on account of paralysis of the legs, though his chloral addiction is believed to have been a means of alleviating pain from a botched hydrocele removal. He had been suffering from alcohol psychosis for some time brought on by the excessive amounts of whisky he used to drown out the bitter taste of the chloral hydrate. He is buried in the churchyard of All Saints at Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England.[52] The grave of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the churchyard of All Saints, Birchington-on-Sea Collections and critical assessment[edit] Tate Britain, Birmingham, Manchester, Salford Museum and Art Galleries and Wightwick Manor National Trust, all contain large collections of Rossetti's work; Salford was bequeathed a number of works following the death of L. S. Lowry in 1976. Lowry was president of the Newcastle-based 'Rossetti Society', which was founded in 1966.[53] Lowry's private collection of works was chiefly built around Rossetti's paintings and sketches of Lizzie Siddal and Jane Morris, and notable pieces included Pandora, Proserpine and a drawing of Annie Miller. Blue plaque at 16 Cheyne Walk In an interview with Mervyn Levy, Lowry explained his fascination with the Rossetti women in relation to his own work: "I don't like his women at all, but they fascinate me, like a snake. That's why I always buy Rossetti whenever I can. His women are really rather horrible. It's like a friend of mine who says he hates my work, although it fascinates him."[54] The friend Lowry referred to was businessman Monty Bloom, to whom he also explained his obsession with Rossetti's portraits: "They are not real women.[...] They are dreams.[...] He used them for something in his mind caused by the death of his wife. I may be quite wrong there, but significantly they all came after the death of his wife."[54] The popularity, frequent reproduction, and general availability of Rossetti's later paintings of women have led to this association with "a morbid and languorous sensuality".[55] His small-scale early works and drawings are less well known, but it is in these that his originality, technical inventiveness, and significance in the movement away from Academic tradition can best be seen.[56] As Roger Fry wrote in 1916, "Rossetti more than any other artist since Blake may be hailed as a forerunner of the new ideas" in English Art.[57] Media[edit] Film Rossetti was played by Oliver Reed in Ken Russell's television film Dante's Inferno (1967). The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood has been the subject of two BBC period dramas. The first, The Love School, (1975) features Ben Kingsley as Rossetti. The second was Desperate Romantics, in which Rossetti is played by Aidan Turner. It was broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday, 21 July 2009.[58] Television Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) appears in an episode of Cheers as Dante Gabriel Rossetti for his Hallowe'en costume. His wife Dr. Lilith Sternin-Crane appears as Rossetti's sister, Christina. Their son Frederick is dressed as Spiderman.[59] Fiction[edit] Gabriel Rossetti and other members of the Rossetti family are characters in Tim Powers' novel "Hide Me Among the Graves," in which both the Rossettis' uncle John Polidori and Gabriel's wife Lizzie act as hosts for vampiric beings, and whose influence inspires the artistic genius of the family. Influence[edit] Rossetti's poem "The Blessed Damozel" was the inspiration for Claude Debussy's cantata La Damoiselle élue (1888). John Ireland (1879–1962) set to music as one of his Three Songs (1926), Rossetti's poem "The One Hope" from Poems (1870). In 1904 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) created his song cycle The House of Life from six poems by Rossetti. One song in that cycle, Silent Noon, is one of Vaughan Williams's best known and most frequently performed songs. In 1904, Phoebe Anna Traquair painted The Awakening, inspired by a sonnet from Rossetti's The House of Life.[60] There is evidence to suggest that a number of paintings by Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Rossetti.[61] Selected works[edit] Books[edit] The Early Italian Poets (a translation), 1861; republished as Dante and His Circle, 1874 Poems, 1870; revised and reissued as Poems. A New Edition, 1881 Ballads and Sonnets, 1881 The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 2 volumes, 1886 (posthumous) Ballads and Narrative Poems, 1893 (posthumous) Sonnets and Lyrical Poems, 1894 (posthumous) The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1911 (posthumous)[62] Poems and Translations 1850–1870, Together with the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul', Oxford University Press, 1913 Double works[edit] "Rossetti divided his attention between painting and poetry for the rest of his life" - Poetry Foundation[4] Aspecta Medusa (1865 October – 1868) Astarte Syriaca (for a Picture; 1877 January–February; 1875–1877) Beatrice, her Damozels, and Love (1865?) Beauty and the Bird (1855; 1858 June 25) The Blessed Damozel (1847–1870; 1871–1881) Bocca Baciata (1859–1860) Body's Beauty (1864–1869; 1866) The Bride's Prelude [1848–1870 (circa)] Cassandra (for a drawing; September 1869; 1860–1861, 1867, 1869) Dante's Dream on the Day of the Death of Beatrice: 9 June 1290 (1875 [?], 1856) Dante Alighieri. “Sestina. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni.” (1848 [?], 1861, 1874) Dante at Verona [1848–1850; 1852 (circa)] The Day-Dream (for a picture; 1878–1880, 1880 September) Death of A Wombat (6 November 1869) Eden Bower [1863–1864 (circa) or 1869 (circa)] Fazio's Mistress (1863; 1873) Fiammetta [for a picture; 1878 (circa) 1878] “Found” (for a picture; 1854; 1881 February) Francesca Da Rimini. Dante (1855; 1862 September) Guido Cavalcanti. “Ballata. He reveals, in a Dialogue, his increasing love for Mandetta.” (1861) Hand and Soul (1849) Hero's Lamp (1875) Introductory Sonnet ("A Sonnet is a moment's monument"; 1880) Joan of Arc [1879 (unfinished), 1863, 1882] La Bella Mano (for a picture; 1875) La Pia. Dante (1868–1880) Lisa ed Elviro (1843) Love's Greeting (1850, 1861, 1864) Mary's Girlhood [for a picture; 1848 (sonnet I), 1849 (sonnet II)] Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee (for a drawing; 1853–1859; 1869) Michael Scott's Wooing (for a drawing; 1853, 1869–1871, 1875–1876) Mnemosyne (1880) Old and New Art [group of 3 poems; 1849 (text); 1857 (picture, circa)] On William Morris (1871 September) Pandora (for a picture; 1869; 1868–1871) Parody on “Uncle Ned” (1852) Parted Love! [1869 September – 1869 November (circa)] The Passover in the Holy Family (for a drawing; 1849–1856; 1869 September) Perlascura. Twelve Coins for One Queen (1878) The Portrait (1869) Proserpine (1872; 1871–1882) The Question (for a design; 1875, 1882) “Retro me, Sathana!” (1847, 1848) The Return of Tibullus to Delia (1853–1855, 1867) A Sea-Spell (for a Picture; 1870, 1877) The Seed of David (for a picture; 1864) Silence. For a Design (1870, 1877) Sister Helen [1851–1852; 1870 (circa)] Sorrentino (1843) Soul's Beauty (1866; 1864–1870) St. Agnes of Intercession (1850; 1860) Troy Town (1863–1864; 1869–1870) Venus Verticordia (for a picture; 1868 January 16; 1863–1869) William and Marie. A Ballad (1841)[63] Paintings[edit] Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850), Tate Britain, London The Tune of the Seven Towers (1857), watercolour, Tate Britain Helen of Troy, 1863, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany How Sir Galahad. Sir Bors, and Sir Percival were fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival's Sister Died Along the Way (1864), watercolour, Tate Britain, London The Beloved (1865-1866) (Models:Marie Ford, Ellen Smith, Fanny Eaton, Keomi) Found (1865–1869, unfinished), Delaware Art Museum The Blessed Damozel (1871–1878; model: Alexa Wilding) Lady Lilith (1867), Metropolitan Museum of Art (model: Fanny Cornforth) Lady Lilith (1868), Delaware Art Museum (Fanny Cornforth, overpainted at Kelsmcott 1872–73 with the face of Alexa Wilding)[64] Beata Beatrix (1864–1870), Tate Britain (model: Elizabeth Siddal) Jane Morris (The Blue Silk Dress) (1868), Kelmscott Manor Pia de' Tolomei (1868–1880), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence (model: Jane Morris) Proserpine (1874; model: Jane Morris) Tate Britain, London Roman Widow (1874: model:Alexa Wilding), Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico A Vision of Fiammetta (1878), one of Rossetti's last paintings, now in the collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber (model: Marie Spartali Stillman) Drawings[edit] La Belle Dame sans Merci (1848), pen and sepia with some pencil Drawing of Elizabeth Siddal reading (1854) Hamlet and Ophelia (1858), pen and ink drawing Drawing of Annie Miller (1860) Portrait of Marie Spartali Stillman (1869) Drawing of Fanny Cornforth, graphite on paper (1869) The Roseleaf (Portrait of Jane Morris; 1870), graphite on wove paper Ligeia Siren (1873), colored chalk Woodcut illustrations[edit] The Maids of Elphen-Mere, Rossetti's first published woodcut illustration (1855) King Arthur and the Weeping Queens, one of two illustrations by Rossetti for Edward Moxon's illustrated edition of Tennyson's Poems (1857) Golden Head by Golden Head, illustration for Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) Decorative arts[edit] Sir Tristram and la Belle Ysoude drink the potion, stained-glass panel by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., design by Rossetti (1862–63) Caricatures and sketches[edit] Death of a Wombat (1869) William Morris reading to Jane Morris while she takes the waters at Bad Ems (1869) Mrs. Morris and the Wombat (1869) See also[edit] Poetry portal English art List of paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Rossetti and His Circle, 1922 book by Max Beerbohm Rossetti–Polidori family tree James Smetham References[edit] ^ "Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes - Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com". oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. 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London: Smith, Elder & Co. ^ Watkinson, Ray, "Painting" in Parry (1996), p. 93. ^ Parry, William Morris, pp. 14–16. ^ "The Cover Sells the Book". Delaware Art Museum. ^ "Dante Gabriel Rossetti Material Design". Rossetti Archive. ^ a b Janzen Kooistra, Lorraine (2011). Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture 1855–1875. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. p. 43. ^ Housman, Laurence (1896). Arthur Boyd Houghton: A Selection from his Work in Black and White. London, England: Trubner and Co. p. 13. ^ Welland, Dennis (1953). The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. p. 17. ^ Barry, William. "The Oxford Movement (1833–1845)". New Advent. Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 15 June 2014. ^ Tractarian ^ a b Bentley, D.M.R. (1977). Rossetti's "Ave" and Related Pictures. 15. West Virginia University Press. pp. 21–35. ^ Taylor, G.W. "John Wesley and the Anglo-Catholic Revival". Project Canterbury. SPCK. ^ Meagher, Jennifer. "The Pre-Raphelites". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 15 June 2014. ^ "Hand and Soul". Victorian Short Fiction Project. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014. ^ "Hand and Soul". The Rossetti Archive. Retrieved 15 June 2014. ^ "The Blessed Damozel". Rossetti Archive. Retrieved 15 June 2014. ^ a b c Treuherz et al. (2003), pp. 52–54. ^ Treuherz et al. (2003), p. 64. ^ Marsh, Jan (15 February 2012). "Did Rossetti really need to exhume his wife?". TheTLS. Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. ^ Williamson, Audrey (1976). Artists and Writers in Revolt: The Pre-Raphaelites. David & Charles. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-7153-72-623 – via Google Books. ^ Treuherz et al. (2003), p. 80. ^ Todd (2001), p. 107. ^ National Library of Australia. ^ Todd (2001), p. 109. ^ Todd (2001), p. 113. ^ a b Todd (2001), p. 116. ^ Pedrick (1964), p. 130 ^ Dunn, Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his circle, ed. Mander, (1984) p. 46. ^ Spencer-Longhurst, The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s (2006). ^ Todd (2001), pp. 123–30. ^ "The Day Dream". www.artmagick.com. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2016. ^ "Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 'The Day Dream'". www.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2016. ^ a b Todd (2001), pp. 128–129. ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 40729). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. ^ Rohde (2000). p. 396. ^ a b Rohde (2000), p. 276. ^ Treuherz et al. (2003), p. 12. ^ Treuherz et al. (2003), p. 16. ^ Quoted in Treuherz et al. (2003), p. 12. ^ "BBC Desperate Romantics". BBC News. ^ In Season 10, Episode 7, "Bar Wars V: The Final Judgment" first broadcast 31 October 1991 ^ Scotland, National Galleries of. "The Awakening − Phoebe Anna Traquair − t − Artists A-Z − Online Collection − Collection − National Galleries of Scotland". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 15 March 2016. ^ Rebecca Jelbert: "Paula Modersohn-Becker’s self-portraits and the influence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti." The Burlington Magazine, vol.159, no.1373 (2017): 617-22. ^ "Rossetti Archive Books". Retrieved 15 June 2014. ^ "Rossetti Archive Doubleworks". The Rossetti Archive. Retrieved 15 June 2014. ^ "Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1868". Retrieved 21 August 2010. Bibliography[edit] Ash, Russell (1995), Dante Gabriel Rossetti. London: Pavilion Books ISBN 978-1-85793-412-0; New York: Abrams ISBN 978-1-85793-950-7. Doughty, Oswald (1949), A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. London: Frederick Muller. Drew, Rodger (2006), The Stream's Secret: The Symbolism of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, ISBN 978-0-7188-3057-1. Fredeman, William E. (1971). Prelude to the Last Decade: Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the summer of 1872. Manchester [Eng.]: The John Rylands Library. Fredeman, William E. (ed.) (2002–08), The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 7 vols. Cambridge: Brewer. Hilton, Timothy (1970). The Pre-Raphaelites. London: Thames and Hudson, New York: H. N. Abrams. ISBN 0810904241. Lucas, F. L. (2013), Dante Gabriel Rossetti - an anthology (poems and translations, with introduction). Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781107639799 [1] Marsh, Jan (1996). The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Lives in Letters and Diaries. London: Collins & Brown. McGann, J. J. (2000). Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must Be Lost. New Haven: Yale University Press. Parry, Linda (1996), ed., William Morris. New York: Abrams, ISBN 0-8109-4282-8. Pedrick, G. (1964). Life with Rossetti: or, No peacocks allowed. London:Macdonald. ISBN Roe, Dinah: The Rossettis in Wonderland. A Victorian Family History. London: Haus Publishing, 2011. Rossetti, D. G. The House Of Life Rossetti, D. G., & J. Marsh (2000). Collected Writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Chicago: New Amsterdam Books. Rossetti, D. G., & W. W. Rossetti, ed. (1911), The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Ellis, London. (full text) Sharp, Frank C., and Jan Marsh (2012), The Collected Letters of Jane Morris, Boydell & Brewer, London. Simons, J. (2008). Rossetti's Wombat: Pre-Raphaelites and Australian animals in Victorian London. London: Middlesex University Press. Treuherz, Julian, Prettejohn, Elizabeth, and Becker, Edwin (2003). Dante Gabriel Rossetti. London: Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0-500-09316-4. Todd, Pamela (2001). Pre-Raphaelites at Home, New York: Watson-Giptill Publications, ISBN 0-8230-4285-5. External links[edit] Dante Gabriel Rossettiat Wikipedia's sister projects Media from Wikimedia Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Texts from Wikisource Data from Wikidata Works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Internet Archive Works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Archival material at Leeds University Library 47 paintings by or after Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the Art UK site Paintings of Rossetti. "The Early Italian Poets From Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri". The Rossetti Archive. Archived from the original on 30 October 2005. "Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery's". preraphaelites.org.org. Archived from the original on 13 July 2009. ""The Blue Bower", by Dante Gabriele Rossetti". worldsbestpaintings.net. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. "Website about Rossetti's wife, Elizabeth Siddal". Archived from the original on 25 March 2004. Retrieved 16 July 2019. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. v t e Dante Gabriel Rossetti Paintings List of paintings The Girlhood of Mary Virgin Ecce Ancilla Domini Paolo and Francesca da Rimini Bocca Baciata Oxford Union murals Venus Verticordia The Beloved Monna Vanna Monna Rosa Pia de' Tolomei Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance Beata Beatrix Dante's Dream Water Willow Veronica Veronese Roman Widow Lady Lilith La Ghirlandata Proserpine A Sea–Spell The Blessed Damozel A Vision of Fiammetta The Day Dream Mnemosyne Found Drawings Ligeia Siren (1873) Family Elizabeth Siddal (wife) Frances Polidori (mother) Gabriele Rossetti (father) Maria Francesca Rossetti (sister) William Michael Rossetti (brother) Christina Rossetti (sister) Gaetano Polidori (grandfather) Related Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood The Germ Hogarth Club Morris & Co. Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels Great Bookcase Rossetti and His Circle (1922 book) Dante's Inferno (1967 film) The Love School (1975 miniseries) Desperate Romantics (2009 miniseries) v t e Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (paintings) William Holman Hunt John Everett Millais Dante Gabriel Rossetti James Collinson William Michael Rossetti Frederic George Stephens Thomas Woolner Associated artists and figures Lawrence Alma-Tadema George Price Boyce John Brett Ford Madox Brown Lucy Madox Brown Richard Burchett Edward Burne-Jones Georgiana Burne-Jones James Campbell John Collier Charles Allston Collins Frank Cadogan Cowper Evelyn De Morgan Walter Deverell Henry Treffry Dunn William Dyce Henry Holiday Arthur Hughes Edward Robert Hughes Frederic Leighton Robert Braithwaite Martineau Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford William Morris Alexander Munro Joseph Noel Paton Valentine Cameron Prinsep Christina Rossetti John Ruskin Emma Sandys Frederick Sandys Thomas Seddon Elizabeth Siddal James Smetham Rebecca Solomon Simeon Solomon John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Marie Spartali Stillman John Melhuish Strudwick Algernon Charles Swinburne Henry Wallis John William Waterhouse William Lindsay Windus Some well-known works (period and post-period) Ophelia Christ in the House of His Parents A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids Ecce Ancilla Domini Mariana The Light of the World Our English Coasts ('Strayed Sheep') The Scapegoat Paolo and Francesca da Rimini The Last of England Work The Awakening Conscience The Hireling Shepherd April Love Found Autumn Leaves Bocca Baciata Oxford Union murals Lady Lilith Roman Widow Mary Magdalene The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple Morgan le Fay Beata Beatrix The Shadow of Death Proserpine A Vision of Fiammetta Pygmalion and the Image series The Beloved Flaming June Cymon and Iphigenia King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid The Day Dream The Golden Stairs Dante and Beatrice Love's Messenger The Magic Circle The Legend of Briar Rose The Lady of Shalott (Waterhouse) The Roses of Heliogabalus Lilith Eos Hope Hylas and the Nymphs Lady Godiva The Love Potion The Lady of Shalott (Hunt) I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott Models Elizabeth Siddal Fanny Cornforth Effie Gray Sophy Gray Annie Miller Jane Morris Marie Spartali Stillman Alexa Wilding Maria Zambaco Dorothy Dene Fanny Eaton Ruth Herbert Related The Germ Hogarth Club Morris & Co. Rossetti and His Circle (1922 book) Dante's Inferno (1967 film) The Love School (1975 series) Desperate Romantics (2009 series) Effie Gray (2014 film) Authority control AAG: 1469 AGSA: 3561 BIBSYS: 90080351 BNE: XX1057565 BNF: cb11983717w (data) CANTIC: a11091708 CiNii: DA00973038 GND: 118749900 ISNI: 0000 0001 2129 6670 KulturNav: 80d0bc57-de16-498e-bb2e-b709095a7495 LCCN: n79117985 LNB: 000072897 MBA: 0ef75909-44c6-44e0-bc9c-1093c220f541 NDL: 00454740 NGV: 4203 NKC: jn20010316159 NLA: 35463837 NLG: 192215 NLK: KAC201913274 NLP: A20170051 NTA: 068369549 PIC: 28671 PLWABN: 9810680581905606 RERO: 02-A022628924 RKD: 68363 SELIBR: 222723 SNAC: w68s4q64 SUDOC: 027893057 TePapa: 2006 Trove: 962206 ULAN: 500022594 VcBA: 495/113041 VIAF: 41848725 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n79117985 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti&oldid=998677793" Categories: 1828 births 1882 deaths English people of Italian descent British people of Italian descent English male poets 19th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English writers English illustrators Polidori-Rossetti family Pre-Raphaelite painters Anglican poets English Anglicans Painters from London Sonneteers Victorian poets Artist authors People educated at King's College School, London Artists' Rifles soldiers Morris & Co. 19th-century English poets British male poets English male novelists Deaths from nephritis Burials in Kent Translators of Dante Alighieri Rossetti family Hidden categories: Articles incorporating Cite DNB template Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use British English from February 2012 Use dmy dates from December 2020 Articles needing additional references from May 2017 All articles needing additional references Pages using Sister project links with wikidata namespace mismatch Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata Articles with Project Gutenberg links Articles with Internet Archive links Articles with LibriVox links Wikipedia articles with AAG identifiers Wikipedia articles with AGSA identifiers Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with KULTURNAV identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with LNB identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with NGV identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLG identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with RERO identifiers Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with TePapa identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers AC with 33 elements Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Wikisource Languages Afrikaans العربية Azərbaycanca تۆرکجه Bân-lâm-gú Беларуская Български Bosanski Brezhoneg Català Чӑвашла Čeština Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français Galego 한국어 Հայերեն Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית ქართული Latina Lietuvių Magyar Македонски മലയാളം مصرى မြန်မာဘာသာ Nederlands 日本語 Norsk bokmål Norsk nynorsk Polski Português Română Runa Simi Русский Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska தமிழ் ไทย Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 吴语 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 6 January 2021, at 14:42 (UTC). 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