
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Painting, Visual Artist
1828 – 1882
Who was Dante Gabriel Rossetti?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and 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 and Astarte Syriaca, 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, Fanny Cornforth, and Jane Morris.
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- Born
- May 12, 1828
London - Also known as
- Dante Gabriel Rosetti
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- King's College School
- Royal Academy
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Apr 9, 1882
Birchington-on-Sea
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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